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Visualizing Websockets

The GPTR Frontend is powered by Websockets streaming back from the Backend. This allows for real-time updates on the status of your research tasks, as well as the ability to interact with the Backend directly from the Frontend.

Inspecting Websockets

When running reports via the frontend, you can inspect the websocket messages in the Network Tab.

Here's how:

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Am I polling the right URL?

If you're concerned that your frontend isn't hitting the right API Endpoint, you can check the URL in the Network Tab.

Click into the WS request & go to the "Headers" tab

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For debugging, have a look at the getHost function.