[dimgl]

In a Golang app I'm writing now, I have middleware that authorizes requests. Authenticated requests have a header with a JWT token. I have an endpoint for websockets where if an authenticated request comes in (the handshake) that request is then upgraded to a Websocket connection. This is the cleanest authentication implementation I've ever used thus far, and I wasn't able to achieve the same thing in Node when I was using socket.io.

I'm sure there are repercussions to this on the client-side, but I haven't gotten to that point yet. I'm still writing the server and testing it using automated integration tests.