Web sites behind enterprise proxies

Question

According to these articles , the Websocket success rate is only 63% (if you have a browser ready for use on the Internet).

And this InfoQ article ( http://www.infoq.com/articles/Web-Sockets-Proxy-Servers ) says that you have more options for connecting using secure websites (wss: //).

Does anyone have any feedback on using Web sockets for a ready-made enterprise, behind proxies and a firewall?

I apologize if my question is off topic.

Regards, Nico

Answer 1

This letter and article are approaching two years.

These problems are associated either with the server or with the proxy server. The reason wss: // is more successful is because SSL traffic is more opaque to intermediaries, and therefore more likely that it will simply be transmitted without interference.

As WebSockets becomes more common, these problems begin to dissipate as problems are resolved in proxies, firewalls, load balancers, and web servers.

In addition, with regard to WebSockets support in browsers, if you included web-socket-js as a polyfill / backup in your web application, then you get almost universal browser support.