Not able to use web sockets with web3 js.

[himanshuchawla009]

let nodeUrl = "wss://" + USER + ":" + PASS + "@" + WSS_ENDPOINT;

// let provider = new Web3.providers.WebsocketProvider(nodeUrl);
let web3 = new Web3(new Web3.providers.WebsocketProvider(nodeUrl))
// Now you can call web3 functions, so we'll just test the connection by getting the latest block in the chain.

web3.eth.getBlock("latest").then((latestBlock) => {
console.log("Latest Block Via Websocket Provider: ");
console.log(latestBlock);

}).catch((er)=>{
console.log("error",er)
})

This code snippet results in following error:-

http_outgoing.js:494
throw new TypeError('The header content contains invalid characters');
^

TypeError: The header content contains invalid characters
at validateHeader (_http_outgoing.js:494:11)
at ClientRequest.setHeader (_http_outgoing.js:498:3)
at new ClientRequest (_http_client.js:173:14)
at Object.request (http.js:38:10)
at Object.request (https.js:239:15)
at WebSocketClient.connect (/home/himanshu/kafkaTest/web3Listener/node_modules/websocket/lib/WebSocketClient.js:241:56)
at new W3CWebSocket (/home/himanshu/kafkaTest/web3Listener/node_modules/websocket/lib/W3CWebSocket.js:62:18)
at ProvidersModuleFactory.createWebsocketProvider (/home/himanshu/kafkaTest/web3Listener/node_modules/web3-providers/dist/web3-providers.cjs.js:1254:22)
at new WebsocketProvider (/home/himanshu/kafkaTest/web3Listener/node_modules/web3-providers/dist/web3-providers.cjs.js:1295:39)
at Object. (/home/himanshu/kafkaTest/web3Listener/index.js:98:22)
at Module._compile (module.js:652:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:693:10)

Same code snippet runs when i replace kaleido url with rinkeby websocket url of infura.

Please Help!!!

[gmaijoe]

did you find a solution to this? i'm getting the same error