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From ws vs wss, which one should I use for my game?

Asked by Janbask Learner Jan 24, 2022 1.6K views 2 answers
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I know it's generally considered best practice to just always use SSL but my game has a tonne of communication back and forth between clients and server (lots of positional updates per second and I want as little delay/bandwidth/processing used as possible) so I'm wondering if it's necessary? What is the worst thing that could happen if I don't enable wss?

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Answered on Feb 16, 2026

wss isn’t just about secrets; without it, anyone on the same network can tamper with packets, inject moves, steal session tokens, or downgrade players into desyncs, and anti-cheat gets way harder. if you’re worried about latency, tls overhead is usually tiny compared to your tick rate and payload size, and you can still keep messages compact. i learned this the annoying way when testing on public wifi while a teammate had https://bestaviatorapp.com/rajabets-casino/ open in a tab and my ws traffic got messed with through a captive portal. another time a “free wifi” page redirected me mid-session right after i clicked https://plinkogamesonline.org/casino/7star-casino/ and the connection just broke. i’d rather pay the small cpu cost than deal with that, and i also don’t want anyone sniffing auth if a player logs in after visiting https://indianaviatrix.com/22bet-casino/ during a break.

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