 <p>If you want to self host then:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/pywebsocket/" rel="nofollow">pywebsocket</a> - Python</li> <li><a href="http://jwebsocket.org/" rel="nofollow">jwebsocket</a> - Java</li> <li><a href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Feature/WebSockets" rel="nofollow">jetty with WebSockets</a> - Java</li> </ul> <p>You could connect to the Pusher hosted WebSocket API to see if you can connect. More information on the endpoints and Pusher protocol here: <a href="http://pusher.com/docs/pusher_protocol" rel="nofollow">http://pusher.com/docs/pusher_protocol</a></p> <p>You would need to sign up for a free Pusher sandbox account to do this though.</p>