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adding WSS exceptions for dummies
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 by opening a WSS socket with invalid certificate, hence you need to have it
 accept it by either of those two methods. 

+The ports may be considered as distinguishing connections by the browser,
+for example, if your website url is https://my.local:8443 and your WebSocket 
+url is wss://my.local:8001, first browse to https://my.local:8001, add the 
+exception, then browse to https://my.local:8443 and add another exception.
+Then an html page served over :8443 will be able to open WSS to :8001
+
 If you have a commercial/valid SSL certificate with one or more intermediate
 certificates, concat them into one file, server certificate first, then the
 intermediate(s) from the CA, etc. Point to this file with the `--cert` option