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WebSocket is an API built on top of TCP sockets and a protocol for bi-directional, full-duplex communication between client and server without the overhead of http.

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Configuring Apache2 to proxy WebSocket?

The WebSocket protocol is an extension of the HTTP protocol. However, the proxy module of Apache2 does not seem to know about it, and throws away crucial headers, converting the call to a standard ...
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Apache mod_proxy: forward secure websocket to non-secure

The websocket library I rely on (PHP-Websockets) does not yet support secure sockets (wss). My website is served over https though, so I cannot use insecure ws connections. I'm trying to use Apache's ...
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Amazon AWS WebSocket Load Balancing Scale-In

We are in the process of developing a WebSocket application that will run on the same application servers that serve our APIs, which are all within a target group of a new Amazon Application Load ...
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Can Nginx limit incoming websocket message size?

In the JS WebSocket library, you can limit the maximum allowed incoming message size via the maxPayload option. I'd like to impose this limit in my Nginx reverse proxy layer, before it gets to my ...
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How to run a Parse Live Query Server (Web Sockets) behind an AWS Load Balancer?

ParseLiveQuery depends on Websockets. More generically this question could be about getting web sockets to work behind an AWS ELB. I'm using the new Parse Server configured in AWS using Elastic ...
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