Socketio + Phantomjs Emit Not Working

I am having a pretty specific problem but I hope people can point me in the right direction for how to debug or even fix it. I am trying to write a local client which can run and t

Solution 1:

After a lot of research it looks like this form of sockets simply aren't yet supported in phantomjs. When the new 2.0 releases they are supposed to be but until then other options are better. I tried to find a shim for a while but was unsuccessful.

In the end, I instead used node.js to run the main script, make the socket connections and then used the phantomjs node module to do the browser interactions rather than running the script as a pure phantom script. This meant that the api interaction logic got pushed to the node application and the phantom code was just about interacting with the page but I was able to achieve the testing goal this way so I count it as success.