Hi there,

I have a PHP app (it’s big can’t migrate it to elixir) so for pseudo real time communications, I’m using a request that uses Server Sent Events that start a redis subscribe to specific channels and on each message I sent to the client, so I can send notifications/progress/etc to the client from the server. The issue is that this requests are long lived, and they are using too much resources in the server.

I’m trying to move to websockets instead of SSE, but in php it looks super complex. I was wondering if I can use channels outside elixir, looks like the way to send messages is simple enough I can write a client in php, but tried to add the js socket client to my app and it didn’t work. It’s trying to open the websocket connection to the same host the website is running instead of the webserver where phoenix app is running, not sure how to specify the right host in the js client.

And what is the best way to secure this scenario?

Thanks in advance