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Asked: 2022-02-22 07:23:24 +0800 CST

How to use smart websocket client from Windows to connect to a running websocket server on virtualbox?

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Here is my setup:

  1. Windows 8.1 with Ubuntu 18.04 within VirtuablBox 6.0
  2. Run a websocket server at 127.0.0.1:8083 within VirtuablBox
  3. Within the VirtuablBox, I can connect to the websocket server with websocat ws://127.0.0.1:8083

What is the setup I should use in order for me to connect to the websocket server through the Chrome extension(i.e Smart Websocket Client) running on Windows host machine.

I have tried to connect to '127.0.01:8083' within Smart Websocket Client, but the error is shown:

Failed to construct 'WebSocket': The URL '127.0.01:8083' is invalid.

Thank you

virtualbox localhost websocket

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Configure a port forward in Virtualbox. Web sockets is a regular TCP stream, and there's no reason it should not work.

    As noted you have port forwarding configured for SSH, so simply add another one for the websocket port.

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