Can nginx be used as a reverse proxy for a backend websocket server?
- by John Reilly
We're working on a Ruby on Rails app that needs to take advantage of html5 websockets. At the moment, we have two separate "servers" so to speak: our main app running on nginx+passenger, and a separate server using Pratik Naik's Cramp framework (which is running on Thin) to handle the websocket connections.
Ideally, when it comes time for…