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Socket.IO

Evening. Trying to get Socket.IO working on PythonAnywhere (with Flask-SocketIO), everything I read on here says "we do not support sockets but might in the future." It it the future yet? Or are sockets still off-limits? I'm just getting net::ERR_TIMED_OUT

deleted-user-2066321 | 6 posts | March 20, 2018, 6:41 p.m. | permalink

Unfortunately we still don't support them :-(

Staff giles | 12096 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | March 20, 2018, 6:52 p.m. | permalink

OK, no problem! Plan B time... wonder if I can connect Firebase Messaging instead...

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.

deleted-user-2066321 | 6 posts | March 20, 2018, 6:55 p.m. | permalink

I believe firebase, pusher etc are all third party providers that work.

Staff conrad | 4232 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | March 21, 2018, 4:50 p.m. | permalink

Hi, any updates on this?

deleted-user-3660473 | 6 posts | Feb. 7, 2019, 12:35 a.m. | permalink

No, no updates.

Staff glenn | 9718 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Feb. 7, 2019, 11:06 a.m. | permalink

I would like too use this too. This would require uwsgi to use either eventlet or gevent(greenlet), for websockets

deleted-user-2669249 | 8 posts | Sept. 19, 2019, 1:11 a.m. | permalink

Noted

Staff glenn | 9718 posts | PythonAnywhere staff | Sept. 20, 2019, 9:56 a.m. | permalink

I wanted to deploy my project as well on this site with Flask-Socket IO. Such a same because the rest of this site is really good!

Guess i'm looking for something else :)

deleted-user-6982020 | 1 post | Feb. 20, 2020, 1:07 p.m. | permalink

It looks like they're not serious about getting sockets going on pythonanywhere, so for all those who are still waiting for Godot, try Heroku. Sockets work great there and it's free!

deleted-user-7607508 | 12 posts | June 11, 2021, 5:27 a.m. | permalink