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Can not established Websocket secure connection on Firefox

rated 0 times [ 191] [ 4] / answers: 1 / hits: 47720 / 10 Years ago, wed, may 21, 2014, 12:00:00

I am stucked with Firefox. I could not make Websocket work on it. I use Tornado Websocket and I initialized it by code below:

app = Application([(r'/mypath/ws', WSHandler)])

http_server = HTTPServer(app, ssl_options={

                certfile: ~/certs/websocket.crt,

                keyfile: ~/certs/websocket.key

            })

http_server.listen(443)

And I initialized it on Javascript side like this:

var WS = new WebSocket(wss://websocket.localhost/mypath/ws);

This code works fine on Chrome, meanwhile I created the cert by myself and run the page under HTTPS. But Firefox keeps saying that:

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at wss://websocket.localhost/mypath/ws.

I google it and found too many thoughts but none of'em worked for me :(

Any help will be appreciated.

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answered 10 Years ago kiley · Accepted Answer

I solved my problem via ProxyPass. I created a non-secure Websocket server with Tornado and run it on a specific port such as 3232:

app = Application([(r'/ws/', WSHandler)])

ws_server = HTTPServer(app)

ws_server.listen(3232)

Then I've written a proxypass in my Apache conf and use mod_proxy_wstunnel:

ProxyPass /ws/ ws://127.0.0.1:3232/ws/

ProxyPassReverse /ws/ ws://127.0.0.1:3232/ws/

And I create Websocket client on frontend like this:

var WS = new WebSocket(wss://websocket.localhost:81/ws/)

In this case I can create a connection on a secure connection with https and my port is 81 and my proxypass redirect any Websocket request to locally listened port 3232. It is not a exact solution mostly like a workaround. But it works fine for me.