Websocket handshake failing

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I’m trying to enable websocket communication between client and server
and
have nginx as proxy. Ive applied the following congiguration changes to
websocket sites-enabled conf to allow for websocket proxy:
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection “upgrade”;
proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $http_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
proxy_pass http://mywebsite;

Although the server receives the Connection: Upgrade header and responds
with aConnection: Upgrade header as expected, the client gets only
Connection: keep-alive and I see the following error on js-console

WebSocket connection to ‘wss://mywebsite.dev/cometd/’ failed: Error
during
WebSocket handshake: ‘Connection’ header value must contain ‘Upgrade’

I feel that nginx might not be proxying the response correctly either
due to
incorrect response or bad config.

Can someone help me out with debugging this? A lot of places where I see
this issue, usually the proxy does not support the websocket handshake
which
causes the handshake to fail.

Appreciate the help!

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Hello!

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:19:32AM -0400, nightcrawler wrote:

with aConnection: Upgrade header as expected, the client gets only
causes the handshake to fail.
Connections upgrades are supported by nginx proxy starting with
nginx 1.3.13. Make sure you are using recent enough version, not
something from Debian oldstable.

You also need to configure nginx properly. Detailed documentation
can be found here:

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

In the config snippet you’ve provided at least “proxy_http_version 1.1;”
seems to be missing.

If the above won’t help, consider looking at nginx debugging logs.
See here for some basic hints:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/debugging_log.html

–
Maxim D.
http://nginx.org/