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How to do a proper handshake with the Coinbase Websocket for Market Data?


What is the first HTTP request I should send for a proper websocket handshake?

I am sending GET / HTTP/1.1 with some other standard websocket headers but I get a 400 Bad Request. See below

$ telnet localhost 8889
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: ws-feed.exchange.coinbase.com
Connection: Upgrade
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache
Upgrade: websocket
Origin: http://www.test.com

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: cloudflare-nginx
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:25:54 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d3fe870c84fc991b0f2f6fc2c936820471441913154; expires=Fri, 09-Sep-16 19:25:54 GMT; path=/; domain=.coinbase.com; HttpOnly
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains; preload
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
CF-RAY: 223d857c6bae01ee-EWR

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Solution

  • Sec-WebSocket-Version header and Sec-WebSocket-Key header are missing.