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Nginx as a WebSockets Proxy

• deleted 12y ago
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• Oculus 12y ago
  So does this mean Nginx now supports WebSockets? In the past when looking into it as a reverse proxy I was advised to avoid it and instead use HAProxy.
• alixaxel 12y ago
  This is nothing new, nginx had support for WebSockets for a long time and the post itself adds little to nothing to the nginx docs on WebSockets.
• carbocation 12y ago
  I use Nginx as a WebSockets reverse proxy sitting in front of my golang apps. It's never given me problems and has been quite painless. Note, as pointed out in this article, you need nginx >= 1.3 for this functionality.
  • aktau 12y ago
    Same here, running a Go WebSocket server behind nginx, absolutely flawless. It allows me to tie all kinds of languages and frameworks together seamlessly. Even though I could do it with Go, I let nginx do the SSL termination. It's more flexible and I can share the SSL cache with for example a PHP/node.js/... app. Using nginx for the plain file serving part of the app is also a dream.