title: Non-Websocket Socket.io clients for benchmarking
body: <p>There are a bunch of Socket.io client implementations out there in e.g. Java (see <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5783086">Java socket.io client</a>), that seem to exclusively support the <code>Websocket</code> protocol.</p>
  
  <p>For benchmarking the server performance of other protocols - and I'm particularly interested in <code>htmlfile</code> as it will be used by IE browsers &lt; 10, unless I enable Flash, which I'm not sure I'll do, as <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11423797">socket.io transport &#39;flashsocket&#39; takes 5 seconds to start on IE 8</a> - is there any Socket.io client available that would allow benchmarking of the server?</p>
  
  <p>I don't care too much what OS or programming language it is.</p>