400 and 522 errors since enabling SSL via Nginx proxy

Sylwester Cyba

An issue with terminating SSL connections?
http://blog.mixu.net/2011/08/13/nginx-websockets-ssl-and-socket-io-deployment/

KingCat

@Moritz-Friedrich Unfortunately none of those config changes made a difference I'm behind cloud flare ssl so I'm not sure if that's what's causing it (even though I disabled it completely for awhile and it still happened)

Moritz Friedrich

@KingCat , if you run sudo nginx -t, what happens exactly?

KingCat

@Moritz-Friedrich

nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful

julian

It's cloudflare. Keep using it, but disable acceleration. Websocket issues will be fixed.

KingCat

@julian said:

It's cloudflare. Keep using it, but disable acceleration. Websocket issues will be fixed.

I did what you suggested and it seems to have fixed the issue in chrome. However in safari it still happens. I'm gonna wait a while and see if maybe safari just has something weird cached (even though i cleared browser and dns cache).

KingCat

So it's been a few days and i'm still getting the errors in safari. The errors don't show up in any other browser though.

If I had to guess, I'd say theres some kind of technology or protocol that safari doesn't support (maybe the wss:// protocol?) so the socket.io has to fallback to using http instead and that seems to be why the error happens. Totally a guess though.

If this is the best I can do I'm OK with that as 0.1% of my users are on safari and it's not a site-breaking bug either. I'll consider this closed unless anyone has anything else to try.

Also, not sure if it matters but I'm using a free StartSSL certificate. It's not a self-signed one and it gives the green lock in safari but just in case it matters for some reason.

KingCat

By the way, I visited the link in the error messages in safari (https://forum.nzb.cat/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=polling&t=1429031828694-10&sid=E7eEDbKPU53mKENvAAW3)

and got this:

{"code":1,"message":"Session ID unknown"}

Not sure what this means for the cause of the 400/502 errors.

Schamper

@KingCat I don't really have anything to contribute, just wanted to say that I saw your username and went "... NZBCat?" and lo and behold... Two things I use combined together

KingCat

@Schamper Haha yep. I may be the KingCat but even I need support sometimes

KingCat

Welp, I solved it.

Turns out I had the wrong directory specified in nginx for static assets. It was pointing to a different install of nodebb. For some reason that caused issues with socket.io (and only with safari/opera for some reason).

Now, here's the weird thing. I only recently started using nginx to serve the assets. Recently as in like this morning. Before that I simply had a proxy pass setup and let nodebb serve the assets. I'm not sure what was causing the 400/502 errors then but I'm just glad their solved now.