Web Socket & Proxy

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Hi all,

I’m working as a consultant for a company that enforces the use of a corporate proxy to browse the web. We have to authenticate ourselves when using it with our AD account.

While browsing Pollinic, my Meteor application, I can’t get any data and while error messages like this one is flooding the console:

WebSocket connection to 'ws://www.pollinic.io/sockjs/948/by11cnjl/websocket' failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response code: 403
29b56c69aa9d14f5c76920fc79e63ba75539a891.js?meteor_js_resource=true:41 POST http://www.pollinic.io/sockjs/948/vhiap87d/xhr 403 (Forbidden)

I can’t tell if there’s an issue with my application or because the proxy is preventing web sockets connection, or worse, is badly configured.

Is there anyone who have successfully browsed a Meteor app behind a corporate proxy with authentication? While working for a different company with a proxy that’s not requiring an authentication, I can see that my app is working flawlessly.

Thanks in advance,
Fabian

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Not sure if this will solve it, but using SSL for you websocket connection makes most proxy issues go away.

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Thanks for your answer. I’ll have to buy a certificate then.