Nginx gains support for WebSockets

I saw this commit land a few days ago, and now it’s out in a release. nginx 1.3.13 has support for proxying WebSockets requests. What does that mean? Well, let’s look at the commit that introduced the change: This allows to proxy WebSockets? by using configuration like this: location /chat/ { proxy_pass ​http://backend; proxy_http_version 1.1; proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade; proxy_set_head