Firefox Websocket security issue

Question

We have a websocket server on port 8080 setup on a Linode box. Chrome and Opera work just fine. Firefox however complains that the operation is insecure.

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Answer 1

I fixed this. The app itself is under SSL but the websocket being accessed is not. Chrome and Opera don't care but Firefox does. According to:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303952

This is known and is not considered a bug. Mozilla's response: wontfix

Solution, put websocket server under SSL and use wss://