# Websoket doesn't connect
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/websoket-doesnt-connect/82085
**Category:** General
**Created:** [16 October 2023 15:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/websoket-doesnt-connect/82085 "2023-10-16T15:07:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@SuperBoss9](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/SuperBoss9)
#### Post date: [16 October 2023 15:07 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/websoket-doesnt-connect/82085/1 "2023-10-16T15:07:48Z")
Hi everyone!
I'm trying to get some alerting information from my Grafana instance to Node-Red (3.0.2). So I'd like to use Websocket. But something doesn't work as expected:
Config:
State:
```auto
curl -i http://192.168.8.158:1880/ws/example
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
X-Powered-By: Express
Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'none'
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 149
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 15:06:58 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=5
Error
Cannot GET /ws/example
```
192.168.8.158 is the server address
No record in syslog. Guessing what is wrong?
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### Author:  [@bakman2](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/bakman2)
#### Post date: [16 October 2023 16:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/websoket-doesnt-connect/82085/2 "2023-10-16T16:33:58Z")
> [@SuperBoss9](#):
>
> `curl -i http://192.168.8.158:1880/ws/example`
You are trying to connect to a websocket using curl, while you need a websocket client in order to connect.
It is possible with curl to perform a websocket request, but it is a bit more complicated than this.
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### Author:  [@SuperBoss9](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/SuperBoss9)
#### Post date: [16 October 2023 16:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/websoket-doesnt-connect/82085/3 "2023-10-16T16:52:35Z")
> [@SuperBoss9](#):
>
> curl -i [http://192.168.8.158:1880/ws/example](http://192.168.8.158:1880/ws/example)
Yes, you are correct.
That helped
```auto
wscat -c "ws://192.168.8.158:1880/ws/example"
Connected (press CTRL+C to quit)
> Hello
< Hello
```
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [16 October 2023 16:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/websoket-doesnt-connect/82085/4 "2023-10-16T16:58:15Z")
You can, of course, just use a separate flow with a ws in node! 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [30 October 2023 16:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/websoket-doesnt-connect/82085/5 "2023-10-30T16:59:07Z")
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