Error 403 when trying to connect to websocket api

Question

I currently develop a realtime kik connector for the unification engine.
To receive the messages, I connect to the websocket endpoint using my users name and password.
Sadly, I get an error 403 everytime.

Is there anything else I have to look out for?

Some examples:

$ curl -XPOST https://apiv2.unificationengine.com/v2/connection/list -u $USER_NAME:$PASSWORD --data "{}" -k -s | jq
{
  "status": 200,
  "info": "200 OK",
  "connections": {
    "kik": {
      "uri": "kik://[email protected]"
    }
  }
}

Websocket:

$ wscat --auth "$USER_NAME:$PASSWORD" -c wss://apiv2.unificationengine.com/v2/ws/start

error: Error: unexpected server response (403)

Answer 1

Are you using this library? https://github.com/websockets/wscat

Does this library support authentication in this way?

wscat --auth "$USER_NAME:$PASSWORD" -c wss://apiv2.unificationengine.com/v2/ws/start

Done research on this, wscat is using npm ws, https://github.com/websockets/ws for webscoket connection.

Can you try header like this and check

var ws = new WebSocket('wss://apiv2.unificationengine.com/v2/ws/start', {
    origin: 'https://apiv2.unificationengine.com',
    headers: { Authorization: 'base64 auth' }
});

You can create base64 auth like this in nodejs

var auth = "Basic " + new Buffer(USER_ACCESS_KEY + ":" + USER_ACCESS_SECRET).toString("base64");