Is WebSockets an API?

The WebSocket API is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open a two-way interactive communication session between the user’s browser and a server . With this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to poll the server for a reply.

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What is Daphne Linux?

Daphne is a HTTP, HTTP2 and WebSocket protocol server for ASGI and ASGI-HTTP, developed to power Django Channels . It supports automatic negotiation of protocols; there’s no need for URL prefixing to determine WebSocket endpoints versus HTTP endpoints.

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Is Nginx ASGI?

The recommended ASGI server seems to be Daphne[0]. Nginx doesn’t need to speak ASGI natively (as it doesn’t speak WSGI natively), more likely Daphne would replace the WSGI server (gunicorn, etc) running behind nginx.

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