synchronous communication (embedded http server?)

Hello,

I have been connecting a game with a peer system using websockets. However, I now noticed that websockets is purely asynchronous, and at times the peer system needs to request data from the game -- and best if its synchronous request, so that the peer obtains the requested data immediately.

WebSockets doesn't support that -- i would need to code a synchronous "fetch" via coordinated asynchronous calls.

However, I then thought that a construct 3 game could in fact run a web server as well, and then a web request could be submitted?

Can this be done?

Is there another way to do this?

I now noticed Redis and a node.js redis client. Perhaps, a more robust connection to peers is via such an infrastructure.

Can Redis be used in construct3 via node.js?

I guess, one would need to import node.js and then install into it the redis client -- can this be done in construct 3.

And, then i guess I would write some interface functions to use within the game code.

Browsers don't really support synchronous network requests. There is too high a chance that it would cause the page to hang and interrupt the user experience. (There is synchronous XHR but I am sure browser makers would get rid of it if the backwards compatibility wasn't such a problem.)

My advice is just do it asynchronously.

Thank you.

Yes, good point.

That is what i eventually did -- a lot of ping pong'ing between the the C3 game and the peer app.

But, i guess, the hanging problem could be avoided if the communication happens in a seperate thread -- if its possible easily to do