Passing proxy parameters to ws without having WebSocket objects

[QuantumTaskForce]

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Description

I'm building an app that relies on dydxprotocol link which itself relies on ws for websocket. But my app doesn't use ws explicitly so I cannot apply what's proposed on issue #1601

For example with Axios I could find a work around and feed it my proxy parameters because Axios proposes a field axios.defaults.httpsAgent.

Is there a similar parameter with ws? Or are there any trick to solve my situation?
Thanks!

ws version

8.14.2

Node.js Version

23.6.0

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[lpinca]

I can't think of any way to do this without having access to the WebSocket object.

[QuantumTaskForce]

What I tried so far is to add a WebSocket object in my code:

import { WebSocket } from "ws";
import { HttpsProxyAgent } from "https-proxy-agent";
const httpsAgent = new HttpsProxyAgent('http://my-proxy.com:1234');
const socket = new WebSocket('url', {agent: httpsAgent});

And in my package.json add an overridesection so my dydx module will use the same ws module I use in my code.

"overrides": {
  "@dydxprotocol/v4-client-js": {
    "ws": "$ws"
    }
}

My hope was that by inserting the httpAgent in the beginning it would apply to all further WebSocket objects, but it doesn't work. Do you know if it's possible to make it work this way?

[lpinca]

No, because the WebSocket instance you create is not the same created by your dependency. The dependency should allow you to pass the options to the instance that it creates. There is no other way.