diff --git a/Source/SocketEngine.swift b/Source/SocketEngine.swift
index 5eb023e..5d4c470 100644
--- a/Source/SocketEngine.swift
+++ b/Source/SocketEngine.swift
@@ -331,6 +331,8 @@ public final class SocketEngine: NSObject, SocketEngineSpec, WebSocketDelegate {
                 if !forcePolling && !forceWebsockets && upgradeWs {
                     createWebsocketAndConnect(true)
                 }
+                
+                client?.engineDidOpen("Connect")
             }
         } catch {
             DefaultSocketLogger.Logger.error("Error parsing open packet", type: logType)
diff --git a/Source/SocketEngineClient.swift b/Source/SocketEngineClient.swift
index 776dc5a..762aca7 100644
--- a/Source/SocketEngineClient.swift
+++ b/Source/SocketEngineClient.swift
@@ -30,4 +30,5 @@ import Foundation
     func engineDidClose(reason: String)
     func parseEngineMessage(msg: String)
     func parseEngineBinaryData(data: NSData)
+    func engineDidOpen(reason: String)
 }
diff --git a/Source/SocketIOClient.swift b/Source/SocketIOClient.swift
index 16ab0a4..3d8adcd 100644
--- a/Source/SocketIOClient.swift
+++ b/Source/SocketIOClient.swift
@@ -318,6 +318,10 @@ public final class SocketIOClient: NSObject, SocketEngineClient, SocketParsable
         }
     }
     
+    public func engineDidOpen(reason: String) {
+        didConnect()
+    }
+    
     // Called when the socket gets an ack for something it sent
     func handleAck(ack: Int, data: [AnyObject]) {
         guard status == .Connected else {return}