[Dwedit]

WebSockets can't go through proxies.

[kingforaday]

I think what you are getting at is that websockets aren't as simple as http traffic through a proxy, but you absolutely can use proxies and ws connections just fine and for a variety of reasons.

[mad_vill]

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.

[mappu]

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 This is a client-side issue with whatever outdated HTTP CONNECT implementation the enterprise has.

[bastawhiz]

This isn't based on any facts

[gregors]

Works completely fine in Haproxy

[andrewmcwatters]

https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/websocket.html

[shadowangel]

I use them though nginx/cloudflare. they work fine.

[Austizzle]

I've definitely used websockets through nginx

[hombre_fatal]

They even go through Cloudflare.

[pier25]

or Fly.io

[paxys]

Says who?