How to make the websocket connection end-to-end encrypted?

[jasper-clarke]

I'm working on a project with websockets that requires alot of security measures and I would like to implement E2EE but I'm not sure how. The first idea I had was using TLS but that is beyond my knowledge.

Could I get some help with this?

[Totodore]

Hello, the TLS encryption is handled by the underlying http lib.
Check this example:
https://github.com/Totodore/socketioxide/tree/main/examples/axum-echo-tls

[jasper-clarke]

That looks very interesting thank you, could you explain the differences between message and message-with-ack?
Also a bit about how this would work in a realistic situation?

[Totodore]

I suppose you mean emit and emit_with_ack? With emit_with_ack you can expect an acknowledgement (see official socket.io doc) by awaiting on the Ok value returned by the method.

[jasper-clarke]

The docs were super helpful for understanding acknoledgements. Thank you very much!