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by latch 1625 days ago
Don't have access to the headers from JS.

Best solution might be to generate a short-lived one-time-use ticket and pass it in the querystring.

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If you make a normal HTTP request first, the server can issue a standard HTTP cookie to the client. That cookie will then be included when the browser makes the websocket request.

However, websockets are not subject to the same-origin policy, so this exposes you to CSRF [1]. To protect against that, you should check the Origin header on the server side.

[1] https://christian-schneider.net/CrossSiteWebSocketHijacking....

Cookies will be forwarded though, or..?