HTTP headers in Websockets client API

Question

Looks like it\'s easy to add custom HTTP headers to your websocket client with any HTTP header client which supports this, but I can\'t find how to do it with the JSON API.

Answer 1

HTTP Authorization header problem can be addressed with the following:

var ws = new WebSocket("ws://username:password@example.com/service");

Then, a proper Basic Authorization HTTP header will be set with the provided username and password. If you need Basic Authorization, then you're all set.

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I want to use Bearer however, and I resorted to the following trick: I connect to the server as follows:

var ws = new WebSocket("ws://my_token@example.com/service");

And when my code at the server side receives Basic Authorization header with non-empty username and empty password, then it interprets the username as a token.