How to authenticate request made to camel webscoket

Question

We are using camel web socket component for publishing real time data. We want to authenticate clients so if user is authorised then he/she should be able to access that websocket url. Please let me know is there any standard way which camel provides.

Answer 1

You can pass on a unique key when new socket is opened.

socket = new WebSocket("ws://example.com:port/uniquekey",'chat');

Then before the sending the handshake, extract the uniquekey from header and send the handshake if uniquekey passes necessary checks.

Answer 2

You can use Apache Shiro with the corresponding Camel component to add authentication, authorization.