Possible to send Authorization header? about react-use-websocket

[robtaussig]

Hi!

Sorry for the late reply. My understanding is the JS implementation of WebSockets does not support additional headers -- see here for a discussion. That said, the library gives you access to the optional protocols param through options.protocols, which might be helpful (from above stack overflow):

A common pattern for achieving WebSocket authentication/authorization is to implement a ticketing system where the page hosting the WebSocket client requests a ticket from the server and then passes this ticket during WebSocket connection setup either in the URL/query string, in the protocol field, or required as the first message after the connection is established. The server then only allows the connection to continue if the ticket is valid (exists, has not been already used, client IP encoded in ticket matches, timestamp in ticket is recent, etc). Here is a summary of WebSocket security information: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/websocket-security

Basic authentication was formerly an option but this has been deprecated and modern browsers don't send the header even if it is specified.

[devhyunjae]

@robtaussig Thanks for the response! Smells i should look for other auth solution and then use you lib 😀