Wasp-lang•6mo ago

WebSocket authentication

Hello this is maybe a stupid question, but looking at the websocket page in the docs I couldn't determine if there is a way (or maybe it already exists by default and it's just not mentioned) to restrict websocket connections to only authenticated users?

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Vinny (@Wasp)•6mo ago

i would guess that you just look for the user on the socker.data object and if it doesn't exist, then throw an error:

// other imports
import { HttpError } from 'wasp/server'

export const webSocketFn: WebSocketFn = (io, context) => {
  io.on('connection', (socket) => {
    const username = getFirstProviderUserId(socket.data.user)
    if (!username) {
      throw new HttpError(
        401, // status code
        "No user found", // message
        { foo: 'bar' } // data (optional)
      )
    }

    //...
  })
}

// other imports
import { HttpError } from 'wasp/server'

export const webSocketFn: WebSocketFn = (io, context) => {
  io.on('connection', (socket) => {
    const username = getFirstProviderUserId(socket.data.user)
    if (!username) {
      throw new HttpError(
        401, // status code
        "No user found", // message
        { foo: 'bar' } // data (optional)
      )
    }

    //...
  })
}

maybe @miho knows a better way

jaan•6mo ago

Ah that makes sense actually 😅 Thanks!

Vinny (@Wasp)•6mo ago

yeah let me know if it works after you've given it a try

jaan•6mo ago

Well throwing an error seems like it just crashes the whole thing, but I remembered that I can just do socket.disconnect() instead of throwing an error

Vinny (@Wasp)•6mo ago

ok cool. yeah, sorry, i don;t have much experience with websockets

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