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Mixed Content notes a change to the WebSocket API in order to align the behavior of sockets with things like XHR, EventSource, and Fetch: http://www.w3.org/TR/mixed-content/#websockets-integration. The relevant bit of which is: ``` The WebSocket() constructor algorithm [WEBSOCKETS] is modified as follows: Remove the current step 2. ``` It would be lovely if we could incorporate these changes into the WebSocket API spec in a future iteration.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/222
Turns out this is part of a larger problem and can't be solved with a simple HTML pull request; see https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/222 discussion.
See https://github.com/whatwg/fetch/issues/235 for a new solution.