21874 2013-04-30 07:58:15 +0000 It would be very useful to be able to include custom headers during the initial handshake. Specifically, the use case in mind is for authorization headers. 2013-06-12 23:48:58 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#top P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 86994 0 contributor 2013-04-30 07:58:15 +0000 Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/websockets/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top Referrer: Comment: It would be very useful to be able to include custom headers during the initial handshake. Specifically, the use case in mind is for authorization headers. Posted from: 71.95.126.13 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130428 Firefox/23.0 88854 1 ian 2013-06-06 20:32:35 +0000 Why can't you just send them in the first packet?