Are there any plans to provide an option in Resclient to use Secure WebSockets (wss://) instead of regular Websockets (ws://)?
Lucky enough, ResClient already supports secure WebSockets.
In the Live Demos, you can see that it connects with wss://
// Creating a client instance.
let client = new ResClient('wss://api.resgate.io');
But Resgate doesn’t run TLS (a.k.a. doesn’t allow wss connections) by default. You must enable TLS and provide the key and certificate file for encryption to work. See Configuration • resgate.io for more info.
Another way is to let a reverse proxy, like Nginx, handle the TLS encryption. That is actually what is done for api.resgate.io.
You can find more info on how to configure Resgate with Nginx here: Nginx reverse proxy
Hope that helps!
Best regards,
Samuel
Given my current knowledge, nginx seems like overkill for now, so I opted to just use a localhost key and cert to get wss://127.0.0.1:8080 up and running. Thanks for the advice!
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