Re:You might not need WebSockets
by mad_vill on Friday April 11, 2025 @08:05PM
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For all the other comments, parent is probably talking about forward proxies and to their point many forward/enterprise proxies have configurations which cause websockets to break and it is a pain to debug this if you have many enterprise customers.
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Echoing this. At $DAYJOB some 5-10% of customers will fail to initiate a websocket connection, even over wss:// despite plain HTTPS requests working fine. This is a client-side issue with whatever outdated HTTP CONNECT implementation the enterprise has.