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    How To Create Secure WebSocket With Node.

    JS
    "ws" Module
    Written on: Sat, 19 Aug 2017
    by zackad

    In this tutorial, we will create ssl enable websocket using ws module.

    Requirements
    nodejs with npm
    certbot to generate ssl certificate from letsencrypt

    Step 1 — Generating SSL Certificate


    Assuming you use ubuntu 16.04 the step are following

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:certbot/certbot

    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install certbot

    If you’re using different system, please refer to this official documentation.

    After certbot successfully installed, we can generate ssl certificate with command

    sudo certbot certonly --webroot -w /var/www/html -d example.com -d www.domain.com

    Otherwise, if we don’t want to use webroot plugin we can use –standalone flag to generate
    ssl certificate.

    Please make sure that port 443 is not being used when generating ssl
    certificate using standalone mode. We can temporarily stopping
    webserver/other process for using port 443 and start again webserver
    when we done.

    sudo certbot certonly --standalone -d example.com -d www.example.com

    This command will generate a single certificate for domain example.com and
    www.example.com. Now we can copy certificate file located in (usually)
    /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/ .

    Step 2 — Create WebSocket Server Project


    For now, lets create a project name secure-websocket in our home directory and initiating
    nodejs project.

    cd

    mkdir secure-websocket

    cd secure-websocket

    npm init
    # Fill all the necessary information

    npm install ws --save

    npm install fs --save

    npm install https --save

    All dependencies is ready, now we need to copy our ssl certificate so the application can
    access it without superuser privileges.

    # create directory to contain ssl certificate

    mkdir ssl-cert

    # copy ssl certificate to our project directory

    sudo cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/fullchain.pem ssl-celt/fullchain.pem

    sudo cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/example.com/privkey.pem ssl-celt/privkey.pem

    After ssl certificate is ready we can write our application code. Create a new file named
    index.js and copy this code.

    // Minimal amount of secure websocket server

    var fs = require('fs');

    // read ssl certificate

    var privateKey = fs.readFileSync('ssl-cert/privkey.pem', 'utf8');

    var certificate = fs.readFileSync('ssl-cert/fullchain.pem', 'utf8');

    var credentials = { key: privateKey, cert: certificate };

    var https = require('https');

    //pass in your credentials to create an https server

    var httpsServer = https.createServer(credentials);

    httpsServer.listen(8443);

    var WebSocketServer = require('ws').Server;

    var wss = new WebSocketServer({

    server: httpsServer

    });

    wss.on('connection', function connection(ws) {

    ws.on('message', function incoming(message) {

    console.log('received: %s', message);

    ws.send('reply from server : ' + message)

    });

    ws.send('something');

    });

    To start websocket server run following command

    nodejs index.js

    We can test it with this chrome extension or other client to access wss://example.com:8443.

    SSL
    TUTORIAL
    WEBSOCKET

    Contact I'm a simple man. I do what I want and what I


    zackad [dot] dev [at] gmail [dot] com could. Otherwise it's a trial and error.

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