The node-client fails when a tls encrypted websocket-server is given as argument:
$ ./node-client.js -h https://boplish.jit.su -p 443
This appears to be Node.js
2014-05-12T15:23:45.702Z - info: Spawning 1 BOPlish client(s) using https://boplish.jit.su:443 as bootstrap server
2014-05-12T15:23:45.719Z - error: Could not spawn all BOPlish clients