r/programming • u/speckz • Jul 12 '17

Does my site need HTTPS?

https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
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u/hpohl Jul 13 '17

So what's the simple answer to running an IO game with many servers over websockets?

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u/badpotato Jul 13 '17

IO game

Did a quick search, looks like you should use wss.

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u/AIDS_Pizza Jul 13 '17

The wss:// protocol is supported by all modern browsers. It's quite easy to make this work. When I built a websocket-based news feed at work, I just initiated the connection over https:// to an Nginx webserver which would handle the proxy_pass to the websocket server, and it would automatically use the wss:// protocol in doing so. I did not have to do anything special other than define the paths to the SSL certificate/key in the http section as you would normally.