SocketRocket
A conforming Objective-C WebSocket client library
... significantly. To do so, just drag and drop the SocketRocket.xcodeproj file into your workspace. Included are setup scripts for the python testing environment. It comes packaged with vitualenv so all the dependencies are installed in userland. SocketRocket includes a demo app, TestChat. It will "chat" with a listening websocket on port 9900. The sever takes a message and broadcasts it to all other connected clients.