“We show, empirically, that the current version of the WebSocket consent mechanism is vulnerable to proxy cache poisoning attacks. Even though the WebSocket handshake is based on HTTP, which should be understood by most network intermediaries, the handshake uses the esoteric “Upgrade” mechanism of HTTP. In our experiment, we find that many proxies do not implement the Upgrade mechanism properly, which causes the handshake to succeed even though subsequent traffic over the socket will be misinterpreted by the proxy.”
(TALKING) Huang, L-S., Chen, E., Barth, A., Rescorla, E., and C.
Jackson, "Talking to Yourself for Fun and Profit", 2010,