Zuul with web socket

Question

We currently have a direct Websocket connection that goes to a backend webservice from our UI Application. Now when we are trying to do the same through Zuul(ApiGateway) we

Answer 1

We have created a zuul proxy web socket support feature to resolve this issue. I will be creating a pull request in spring cloud netflix soon. The library and demo are currently hosted in github.

Answer 2

Zuul 1 is unable to support websockets. Zuul 2 will support it https://github.com/Netflix/zuul/issues/112.

Answer 3

You can use spring-cloud-starter-gateway instead of zuul. WebSocket is supported and it's a much better developer experience since it's tightly integrated with Spring.