connectHeader is not passed to Spring server

[arian-h]

Hello!

I have the following code, using the stomp js client:

this.client = new Client();
this.client.configure({
  brokerURL: 'ws://localhost:8443/api/wsocket',
  connectHeaders: {
    login: "user",
    passcode: "password"
  },
  onConnect: () => {
    console.log('onConnect');

    this.client.subscribe('/ws/quote', message => {
      console.log(message);
      debugger;
    });
  },
  // Helps during debugging, remove in production
  debug: (str) => {
    console.log(new Date(), str);
  }
});
this.client.activate();

I was following your stomp-spring-react project on github. The problem is that I don't receive the header on the server side. I have a JWT Authentication Filter, that gets hit, but I don't get the header payload when I want to access it via: request.getHeader. I checked all the header names using request.getHeaderNames but I don't see it there either. Is this a bug or am I missing something here?

[kum-deepak]

I do not use Spring myself. Based on previous issues and Spring documentation I can suggest the following:

• WebSocket internally connects using HTTP(S). request.getHeader returns headers from the HTTP connection. WebSocket protocol does not allow setting custom headers for the HTTP connection.
• To get the headers from STOMP CONNECT frame you will need slightly different code. The best reference I have found is at: https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/web.html#websocket-stomp-authentication-token-based
• This example demonstrates Token authentication, however you can authenticate using headers you are sending. Your header will be accessible through accessor which is MessageHeaderAccessor.getAccessor(message, StompHeaderAccessor.class).

I hope this helps.