Socket.io connection event not fired - node.js

I am beginner to socket.io and trying to make simple hello world like program. It looks like my index.html page loads and connects to the server successfully but the server is not firing the "connection" event. I am sharing my code so that you can figure out what am I doing wrong here.
app.js
var app = require('http');
var io = require('socket.io'), fs = require('fs');
app.createServer(function(req,res){
console.log(req.url);
switch(req.url){
case '/':
fs.readFile('./index.html',function(err,data){
if(err){
res.end('Error');
throw err;
}
res.writeHead(200,{"Context-type":"text/html"});
res.write(data);
res.end();
});
break;
case '/socket.io.js':
fs.readFile('./socket.io.js',function(err,data){
if(err){
res.end('Error');
throw err;
}
res.writeHead(200,{"Context-type":"text/javascript"});
res.write(data);
res.end();
});
}
}).listen(8888);
ios = io.listen(app);
console.log("Listening..");
ios.sockets.on('connection',function(socket){
console.log('connection established.'); //this doesn't show up in CLI
});
Index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head lang="en">
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Example</title>
<script src="socket.io.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script>
var socket = io.connect('http://localhost:8888');
</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Finally I figured it out myself. All I had to do was to
server = require('http').createServer()
and then pass that server to the listener of socket io i.e.
io.listen(server);
What I was doing wrong that I was passing app = require('http'); to the io.listen(app)

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<html>
<head>
<script src="https://cdn.socket.io/socket.io-1.0.0.js"></script>
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var socket;
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<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.socket.io/socket.io-1.0.3.js"></script>
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-->
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