Socket.IO 1.3.3 is a backwards-compatible recommended upgrade for everyone.

• It addresses a bug in the parser that could break the decoder with maliciously-crafted binary packets.

• We now warn about errors in the console if you dont manually specify an error event handler for Socket objects on the server.

As usual, you can grab the latest client from the CDN!

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In this tutorial well learn how to create a chat client that communicates with a Socket.IO Node.JS chat server, with our native Android Client! If you want to jump straight to the code, it's on GitHub. Otherwise, read on!

The first version of Socket.IO was created shortly after Node.JS made its first appearance. I had been looking for a framework that easily enabled me to push data from a server to a client for a long time, and even had tried other approaches to server-side JavaScript.