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[-]Secure Websockets (?)[/-][+]Secure websockets on app engine (?)[/+]on Nov 24, 2016 @JustinBeckwith Any thoughts?
Bump. Same question here. Need secure websockets on App Engine for our node.js implementation. So far, this seems to be the last issue preventing us from moving our Production env. to App Engine. Any updates?
Reacted by Kevin Wade, comet, Oren Zomer, Alex Wauters, Caio Vertematti, daniel jodeci, Kevin Jahns, Eric, navi, Grant Timmerman and 3 moreIf/while this is being worked on, can some of the reasons for no WSS support on App Engine flexible be shared?
GCP's general approach to security has been great, and the advice to use a VM goes against why many use GAE to begin with (minimal ops!).
Same here, we opted out of using socket.io over the apparent widespread support for websockets so its a must. Unsecure apps even for development just seems unwise.
Same here, would appreciate an example on setting up secured websockets on a manage vm
Did anyone manage to solve this successfully? I have an implementation of a secure websocket server that appears to be running on Appengine but on connection to the websocket I receive the response
failed: Error in connection establishment: net::ERR_INSECURE_RESPONSEEdit: On further investigation, the error arises from the use of self-signed certificates.
@edmothershaw, please can you tell how have you achieved it?
Does appengine flex support secure websockets now? Or is there some workaround?The solution we eventually went with was to deploy the websocket server in Kubernetes.
I'm unsure if it supports it now but my guess is that it does not and probably never will (appengine/websockets is no longer included in the sample docs). They suggest using compute engine in this example https://cloud.google.com/solutions/real-time-gaming-with-node-js-websocket@Ajaxy there is nothing special about Compute Engine for configuring websockets with node js, I would suggest to make it over nginx, this could be helpfull:
https://blag.felixhummel.de/junk/nginx_socketio_wss_test.html@art-grig Thanks for the link. Well, I’m not sure, “Compute Engine” doesn’t sound like a proper place for a tiny WS service. I’m just using ML Engine for serving AI service, so I thought would be convinient to store all parts on GCloud. Now I’m thinking about using Heroku for WS service.
Hello everyone, are there any updates on this? 😄
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So is it still not possible to have WebSockets in 2023 on any container service from google? Cloud Run, App Engine without using Long Polling or Socket.io
Cloud Run has support for websockets: https://cloud.google.com/run/docs/triggering/websockets
Thank you very much, my mistake was I used WebSocket and not WebSocket Secure. The client refused to make a request. It works all fine now. Happy hacking.
The README for the
appengine/websocketsexample says:It would be great if the README could elaborate on this, as most sites are served over HTTPS nowadays and thus also require the websockets connection to be secure. This is also my usecase!
In, fact any suggestion on how supporting SSL inside that docker image could be achieved, would be greatly appreciated!