From 9e018fa4a221fc73c19486b22bbdf241e2984ef9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steffen Vogel <post@steffenvogel.de>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 19:06:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] websocket: properly parse payload format for client
 connections

---
 lib/nodes/websocket.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/nodes/websocket.c b/lib/nodes/websocket.c
index 220462f29..731e01390 100644
--- a/lib/nodes/websocket.c
+++ b/lib/nodes/websocket.c
@@ -405,10 +405,12 @@ int websocket_start(struct node *n)
 		c->state = WEBSOCKET_CONNECTION_STATE_CONNECTING;
 
 		format = strchr(d->info.path, '.');
-		if (!format)
+		if (format)
+			format = format + 1; // remove "."
+		else
 			format = "villas.web";
 
-		c->format = format_type_lookup(format + 1);
+		c->format = format_type_lookup(format);
 		if (!c->format)
 			return -1;