Send Headers on Connection

[rafaeliga]

Hello there,

When connecting my flutter app to rails, Im sending headers to authorize:

cable = ActionCable.Connect(constants.socketHost, headers: {
        "Authorization": constants.socketToken,
      }, onConnected: () {

Is there a way to do the same with actioncable-vue?

Thanks,

[rafaeliga]

Any ideas?

Makes sense if I create this issue on rails/actioncable?

[jakob-lilliemarck]

I've run into the same issue. Passing authentication tokens in the url as the docs propose is widely insecure and bad practice. Apparently passing headers on the initial http upgrade request is unsupported in browsers:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4361173/http-headers-in-websockets-client-api

I guess the next best option is to send the token over the websocket channel after connection, and then start streaming the data that requires auth.