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ws:// works well, but wss:// connection failed.

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Description

Connecting on ws:// works well but wss:// doesn’t. If I try to connect to wss://, then an error occurs:

WebSocket connection to ‘wss://[host]/’ failed

I think it’s not a problem about my server but ws because when I run my server on HTTPS then it works well.

How do I figure it out? or any tips to debug the problem in ws?

Thank you for viewing my question.

Reproducible in:

version: 7.5.3
Node.js version(s): 16.6.0
OS version(s): Amazon Linux

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I’ve also asked this in more detail on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68745030/websocket-aws-websocket-connection-to-wss-host-failed.

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Comments:13 (7 by maintainers)

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lpincacommented, Aug 11, 2021

@charlieheslington if you are running this https://github.com/websockets/ws#external-https-server, then it can’t work with ws:// as it only accepts TLS connections.

If you are using a TLS terminating reverse proxy / load balancer like @ygnoh make sure it correctly forwards the upgrade requests to the WebSocket server.

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lpincacommented, Aug 12, 2021

I’m closing this as answered. Discussion can continue if needed.