While working on pressing the button with Haskell, I needed to establish a secure WebSocket (WSS) connection. Unfortunately the existing websockets package did not support secure WebSockets. I looked around and found an issue addressing it. It had a few workarounds by @jaspervdj, @mpickering, and @elfenlaid. They got the job done, but weren’t nearly as easy to use as the insecure runClient function. I figured that other people could benefit from having a turnkey WSS solution, so I packaged it up and released it as Wuss.

I was surprised by how easy it was to add support for secure clients to the websockets package. It only took five lines of code. That is a testament to the design of that package, the strength of the ecosystem, and the expressiveness of Haskell as a language.

runSecureClientWith host port path options headers app = do
    context <- initConnectionContext
    connection <- connectTo context (connectionParams host port)
    stream <- makeStream (reader connection) (writer connection)
    runClientWithStream stream host path options headers app