HTTP headers in Websockets client API

Question

Looks like it\'s easy to add custom HTTP headers to your websocket client with any HTTP header client which supports this, but I can\'t find how to do it with the JSON API.

Answer 1

My case:

• I want to connect to a production WS server a www.mycompany.com/api/ws...
• using real credentials (a session cookie)...
• from a local page (localhost:8000).

Setting document.cookie = "sessionid=foobar;path=/" won't help as domains don't match.

The solution:

Add 127.0.0.1 wsdev.company.com to /etc/hosts.

This way your browser will use cookies from mycompany.com when connecting to www.mycompany.com/api/ws as you are connecting from a valid subdomain wsdev.company.com.