crtr0

// set-up a connection between the client and the server
var socket = io.connect();

// let's assume that the client page, once rendered, knows what room it wants to join
var room = "abc123";

socket.on('connect', function() {
   // Connected, let's sign-up for to receive messages for this room
   socket.emit('room', room);
});

kentbrew

The Problem

Standard practices say no non-root process gets to talk to the Internet on a port less than 1024. How, then, could I get Node talking on port 80 on EC2? (I wanted it to go as fast as possible and use the smallest possible share of my teeny tiny little micro-instance's resources, so proxying through nginx or Apache seemed suboptimal.)

The temptingly easy but ultimately wrong solution:

Alter the port the script talks to from 8000 to 80:

}).listen(80);