WebSockets seem totally broken by Firefox SOCKS settings

http://html5demos.com/web-socket is failing on both TBB 2.2.x and 2.3.x. I also tested a Vanilla FF14 with SOCKS proxy settings, and the socket also breaks there, too.

This is thus probably an upstream Firefox bug. We should at least file a bugzilla bug and bring it to someone's attention, I guess.

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I cannot get http://html5demos.com/web-socket to work in vanilla Firefox 17 even without SOCKS (it does work in Chrome 16). The demo at http://www.websocket.org/echo.html does work in Firefox 17 both with and without SOCKS configured.

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Replying to [ticket:5292#comment:6 mikeperry] (from ticket:5292):

http://html5demos.com/web-socket Application Error (Test is dead) http://www.websocket.org/ Works This error appears in the FF error console:

Error: Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at ws://node.remysharp.com:8001/.
Source File: http://html5demos.com/web-socket
Line: 54
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This error appears for those webpages which use swf (Adobe Flash) instead of JS for WebSocket, and it's quite confusing, yeah. Or when JS is used by https://webirc.oftc.net ;) {{{ Torbutton INFO: tor SOCKS: https://webirc.oftc.net:8443/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=1472662463500-5&sid=7R-gdaxz9kejlJv6ACGE via oftc.net:4f53916b35aff4720ecd401c5e1302e2 Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at wss://webirc.oftc.net:8443/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=websocket&sid=7R-gdaxz9kejlJv6ACGE. qui-0cc18125cbfe7c291eca.js:8132:15 The connection to wss://webirc.oftc.net:8443/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=websocket&sid=7R-gdaxz9kejlJv6ACGE was interrupted while the page was loading. qui-0cc18125cbfe7c291eca.js:8132:15 NS_ERROR_FAILURE: Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIInterfaceRequestor.getInterface] network-monitor.js:84:0

Or by https://storm.torproject.org

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at wss://storm.torproject.org/sockjs/435/ceuw1mnv/websocket. 7e8aa475d2075bbe5de6d8cac1f43c6b5ce296a1.js:53:17714

Nevertheless, http://websocketstest.com is everything you need for testing.
Maybe, there are some issues with WebSocket for separate tickets, but according to the Summary and the Description this ticket can be closed.

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