Title: WebSocket connection error when validate API key
Last modified: August 12, 2020

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# WebSocket connection error when validate API key

 *  [simbian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simbian/)
 * (@simbian)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/websocket-connection-error-when-validate-api-key/)
 * Hello, i installed the plugin and tried to validate the API key i got from pushnotifications.
   io but when i press validate it load for a while then does nothing.
    From the
   web console i noticed this error:
 * ?v=2.0:6 WebSocket connection to ‘wss://public-api.wordpress.com/pinghub/wpcom/
   me/newest-note-data’ failed: Error during WebSocket handshake: Unexpected response
   code: 403
    g @ ?v=2.0:6 T @ ?v=2.0:6 j @ ?v=2.0:6
 * I run latest WP 5.5, how i can solve this?
 * Thanks in advice.

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 *  Plugin Author [Magazine3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/magazine3/)
 * (@magazine3)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/websocket-connection-error-when-validate-api-key/#post-13250348)
 * Can you please share your website URL with us? So we can analyse it and help 
   you to fix the issue for you.
 *  Thread Starter [simbian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simbian/)
 * (@simbian)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/websocket-connection-error-when-validate-api-key/#post-13251967)
 * Sure, [https://theredlips.digitalking.it](https://theredlips.digitalking.it)
 * Thanks in advice.
    Simone
 *  Thread Starter [simbian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simbian/)
 * (@simbian)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/websocket-connection-error-when-validate-api-key/#post-13275061)
 * Any news? If you want to reproduce the problem i can create an admin account 
   for debug/support purposes and give you the API key from pushnotifications.io.
   
   Just tell me an email address so i can send the info needed.
 * Thanks in advice.

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 * Last reply from: [simbian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simbian/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/websocket-connection-error-when-validate-api-key/#post-13275061)
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