Why don't current websocket client implementations support proxies?

Question

A Web Socket detects the presence of a proxy server and automatically sets up a tunnel to pass through the proxy. The tunnel is established by issuing an HTTP

Answer 1

You mentioned Java proxies, and to respond to that I wanted to mention that Java-Websocket now supports proxies.

You can see the information about that here: http://github.com/TooTallNate/Java-WebSocket/issues/88