`[Error: HTTP 404]` while creating web socket

[kms70847]

app terminates with [Error: HTTP 404], apparently while cabbage.js' createWebSocket is executing.

Steps to reproduce:

• node app.js

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Could it be that http://chat.stackoverflow.com/ws-auth has been moved/removed? I get "page not found" when I browse to it in my browser, as well.

[kms70847]

JRichardSnape was able to confirm that the ws-auth endpoint is still there and still operating. Starting around this message, he guided me through the process of talking to the web service from the broswer, which I will reproduce here.

1. Determine your fKey value. View the source of an open chat room and search for a tag that looks like <input id="fkey" name="fkey" type="hidden" value="<fkey_value_goes_here>" />
2. Open firefox and navigate to http://chat.stackoverflow.com/ws-auth. You will get a 404 page.
3. go to tools -> web developer -> network.
4. In the developer tool kit that appears, highlight the row that reads "404 | GET | ws-auth". Right click it and choose "Edit and Resend".
5. In the New Request window, change GET to POST. Add content-type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded to the headers. Under Request Body, enter roomid=6&fkey=<your_special_fkey_value>.
6. Hit Send.
7. You should get a "200 | POST | ws-auth" row. Select the "response" tab to view your authentication code. It looks like url: "wss://chat.sockets.stackexchange.com/events/6/<hex code goes here>".