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wss websocket stopped working

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Today firsfox just stopped connecting to a wss websocket server. It has always worked fine before today and still works in Chrome.

What happened???

Port is open. Connect when running websocket.org/echo.html in chrome but not in firefox

Today firsfox just stopped connecting to a wss websocket server. It has always worked fine before today and still works in Chrome. What happened??? Port is open. Connect when running websocket.org/echo.html in chrome but not in firefox

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just-money said

FredMcD, You said "it worked for Me"
You never answered the question. Did you try the wss socket with Firefox browser?

I right-click the link and selected 'open in tab.' No problem.

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Works okay for me.

Please explain the problem in detail. What happens? What is/are the exact error message(s) ?

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You tried in in firefox browser?

I have tried it with firefox on several machines here with no luck. Like I said works fine with chrome.

Peter

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I clear history. Is there some other cache to clear?

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Many site issues can be caused by corrupt cookies or cache.

Warning ! ! This will log you out of sites you're logged in to. You may also lose any settings for that website.

If there is still a problem, Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web link}
by holding down the <Shift> (Mac=Options) key, and then starting Firefox.

A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh).
Did this help?

While you are in safe mode;

Try disabling graphics hardware acceleration in Firefox. Since this feature was added to Firefox it has gradually improved but there are still a few glitches.

How to disable Hardware Acceleration {web link}

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Anything helpful displayed in the Web Console or in the Browser Console ?

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just says

Firefox can’t establish a connection to the server at wss://pjames.us:9900/. pjames.us:171:13

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no error in chrome

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Try the Firefox version from the official Mozilla server if you currently use a version from the repositories of your Linux distribution.

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FredMcD,

You said "it worked for Me" You never answered the question. Did you try the wss socket with Firefox browser?

I thought maybe Firefox checks blacklist sites.

I download the new developer version of Firefox but can to seem to find any install instructions.

It is suppose to have some websocket disgnostic tools.

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I am not concerned about it working in my firsefox browser but it everyone's firefox and other popular browsers.

I am ask people to come to my site to sign my petition. The websockets need to work without a glitch. The websockets were working fine before and just stopped working today.

It doesn't help to load a new version of the browser. Websockets have been working for quite a while in Firefox and other browsers.

I need it working on all version of firefox that are in general use today.

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Can anybody reproduce the problem in Firefox?

Lauch the website wait a few moments and press f12. Read any errors.

Also, I just embedded some youtube links to avoid licensing issues. I am now geeting CORs warning but it does seem to effect the function of the website.

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works here fine.

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Maybe the secure wss:// doesn't work properly if you specify a port number, so you can try ws:// instead.

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just-money said

FredMcD, You said "it worked for Me"
You never answered the question. Did you try the wss socket with Firefox browser?

I right-click the link and selected 'open in tab.' No problem.

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like I said it was working fine on firefox yesterday. It works fine on chrome now.

Can anybody replicate the problem on firefox from your end?

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Must have uograded to latest firfox browser that didn't support old tls version upgrade to newer tls protocol now it works fine.

Thanks for everybodies help.

Still looking for someone to help on multi user video chat at ncreepy.com. IT is completely browser end-to-end encrypted (the two way version) and want to make the group video chat fully end to end browser to browser encrypted. Not sure how mant stream abrower running on a normal machine can handle. THere is no central account database and want to eventually include the STUN server on the personal computer so there is no outside traffic to hack.