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authorWikinaut <mail@tgries.de>2012-12-02 18:28:28 +0100
committerWikinaut <mail@tgries.de>2012-12-02 18:28:28 +0100
commit8b044254cc4d6c5413b6426d0cd13b4b44c04e6f (patch)
tree30f6a037f0ce0e416a799fe673d0b45226ea2773
parente9e4d65ad46b5b222a4117c2efb1225422f68650 (diff)
downloadetherpad-lite-8b044254cc4d6c5413b6426d0cd13b4b44c04e6f.zip
add socketTransportProtocols parameter
-rw-r--r--settings.json.template7
-rw-r--r--src/node/hooks/express/socketio.js4
-rw-r--r--src/node/utils/Settings.js8
3 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/settings.json.template b/settings.json.template
index 4894f897..815009c2 100644
--- a/settings.json.template
+++ b/settings.json.template
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@
*/
+ // restricts socket.io transport methods to JSONP-POLLING only
+ // which is needed for IE8 browsers with deactivated native XMLHTTP support
+ // see issue https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/pull/958
+ // and https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/245#issuecomment-4013455
+
+ "socketTransportProtocols" : ['xhr-polling', 'jsonp-polling', 'htmlfile'],
+
//The Type of the database. You can choose between dirty, postgres, sqlite and mysql
//You shouldn't use "dirty" for for anything else than testing or development
"dbType" : "dirty",
diff --git a/src/node/hooks/express/socketio.js b/src/node/hooks/express/socketio.js
index c2b9ff6c..524bab3d 100644
--- a/src/node/hooks/express/socketio.js
+++ b/src/node/hooks/express/socketio.js
@@ -36,10 +36,10 @@ exports.expressCreateServer = function (hook_name, args, cb) {
});
});
- // there shouldn#t be a browser that isn't compatible to all
+ // there shouldn't be a browser that isn't compatible to all
// transports in this list at once
// e.g. XHR is disabled in IE by default, so in IE it should use jsonp-polling
- io.set('transports', ['xhr-polling', 'jsonp-polling', 'htmlfile']);
+ io.set('transports', settings.socketTransportProtocols );
var socketIOLogger = log4js.getLogger("socket.io");
io.set('logger', {
diff --git a/src/node/utils/Settings.js b/src/node/utils/Settings.js
index fb2a592c..2a771497 100644
--- a/src/node/utils/Settings.js
+++ b/src/node/utils/Settings.js
@@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ exports.port = process.env.PORT || 9001;
*/
exports.ssl = false;
+/**
+ * restricts socket.io transport methods to JSONP-POLLING only
+ * which is needed for IE8 browsers with deactivated native XMLHTTP support
+ * see issue https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/pull/958
+ * and https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/issues/245#issuecomment-4013455
+ **/
+exports.socketTransportProtocols = ['xhr-polling', 'jsonp-polling', 'htmlfile'];
+
/*
* The Type of the database
*/