Does UaExport support websocket transport

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Does UaExport support websocket transport

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Hi,
does UaExpert support websocket transport (endpoint 'opc.wss')?
If not, is this planned in the near future?

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Re: Does UaExport support websocket transport

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Hi,

no, there are currently no plans to implement the Websocket transport in the UaExpert.

Same as for every single different transport bindings within OPC UA technology, they typically represent a certain use case. Typically only the applications that need to fullfil exactly this usecase are going to implement this certain transport. And if your application is a "web-application" it makes perfectly sense. The vast majority will implement and use the (mandatory) UA-TCP transport only. We of course know that this creates a (kind of) hen-egg problem, however the use case and it's market share will decide.
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Re: Does UaExport support websocket transport

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Ok, does any of your stacks (client or server) support this transport binding?

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Re: Does UaExport support websocket transport

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Hi,

no, our SDKs do not support the Websocket binding. However, with the layered architecture in our SDKs there is (theoretically) the ability to implement/integrate transport binding youself. Furthermore we don't know any implementation of others on the commercial SDK market.

We have lately added the PubSub protocol implementation including the UDP and in a second step MQTT transport binding for the PubSub.
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