[Info] Error during WebSocket handshake: Invalid status line

[Rob-pw]

Hi:

I am new to horizon and have been trying to establish a connection from my front-end. For a while I was receiving this cryptic error, thrown on horizon.connect() which could not be caught using a try/catch. I googled and could not find anything horizon specific on this.

Turns out, I was connecting based on this message:
Connecting to RethinkDB: admin @ localhost:28015

When I should've been connecting to the port served by hapi/express/hz serve, in my case :8181.

It is a small mistake, but one which caused me much frustration. Just in-case someone else encounters this, believing they're supposed to be connecting to the rethinkdb port, please could we add a note in the documentation?