Clarify public WebSocket availability in Flashblocks docs
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Newbie friendliness
- 75/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Domain
- api, documentation
Research direction
Start with the RPC overview, eth_subscribe, Flashblocks FAQ, newFlashblocks, newFlashblockTransactions, and pendingLogs pages named in the issue. Verify their WebSocket guidance against the observed 405 response, then update the examples and availability statements so completion means they consistently direct subscription users to a provider or self-hosted node.
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Description
Summary
Several Base docs pages currently imply that the public wss://*.base.org endpoints can be used directly for Flashblocks subscriptions.
What I observed
A WebSocket upgrade request to the public Base RPC endpoints returns 405 Method Not Allowed instead of establishing a subscription connection.
Impacted areas
- RPC overview
eth_subscribe- Flashblocks FAQ
newFlashblocksnewFlashblockTransactionspendingLogs
Suggested fix
Update the docs to clarify that:
- the public
base.orgRPC endpoints are currently HTTP-only - subscription-based Flashblocks usage should go through a node provider or a self-hosted Flashblocks-aware node
- examples should avoid suggesting direct use of
wss://mainnet-preconf.base.org
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 337
- Forks
- 798
- Avg merge
- 7h 24m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 51
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