Sockets.io issue: WebSocket is closed before the connection is established - node.js

Question

I am currently building a nodejs webrtc video conference, hosted on azure. The program works perfectly fine locally, but when hosted there seems to be an issue with websockets. The client side error is below:
WebSocket connection to '<URL>' failed: WebSocket is closed before the connection is established.
index.js:83 WebSocket connection to 'wss://etuition.azurewebsites.net:8080/socket.io/?EIO=3&transport=websocket' failed: WebSocket is closed before the connection is established.
I have seen other stack overflow posts claiming that this is due to SSL, but site is currently running on HTTPS so this should not be a problem for me. Is it possible that the ws server is insecure even though my http server is secure?
Any other advice on what could be the problem will be greatly appreciated.
Below I have included my server.js code.
Please ask if any more information is needed:
/**
* Server module.
*
*
*/
'use strict';
var environment = process.env.RTC_ENV || 'local';
var debug = require('debug')('expressapp:server');
var express = require('express');
var cors = require('cors');
const http = require('http');
var logger = require('./logger').logger(environment);
var serverPort = normalizePort(process.env.PORT || '8080');
//var serverPort = normalizePort(process.env.PORT || '8080');
function normalizePort(val) {
var port = parseInt(val, 10);
if (isNaN(port)) {
// named pipe
return val;
}
if (port >= 0) {
// port number
return port;
}
return false;
}
//var serverPort = process.env.RTC_PORT || 31000
var serverIpAddress = process.env.RTC_IP || 'localhost'
var socketIoServer = 'etuition.azurewebsites.net' + ':' + serverPort;
////////////////////////////////////////////////
// SETUP SERVER
////////////////////////////////////////////////
var app = express();
app.set('port', serverPort);
function redirectSec(req, res, next) {
if (req.headers['x-forwarded-proto'] == 'http') {
var redirect = 'https://' + req.headers.host + req.path;
console.log('Redirect to:' + redirect);
res.redirect(redirect);
} else {
return next();
}
}
app.use(redirectSec);
require('./router')(app, socketIoServer, environment);
// Static content (css, js, .png, etc) is placed in /public
app.use(express.static(__dirname + '/public'));
app.use(cors());
// Location of our views
app.set('views', __dirname + '/views');
// Use ejs as our rendering engine
app.set('view engine', 'ejs');
// Tell Server that we are actually rendering HTML files through EJS.
app.engine('html', require('ejs').renderFile);
const server = http.createServer(app);
server.listen(serverPort);
server.on('listening', onListening);
function onListening() {
var addr = server.address();
var bind = typeof addr === 'string'
? 'pipe ' + addr
: 'port ' + addr.port;
debug('Listening on ' + bind);
logger.info("Socket IO Address:" + socketIoServer);
logger.info("Server IP Address:" + serverIpAddress);
logger.info('Server running on port ' + serverPort);
}
var io = require('socket.io').listen(server, { log: false, origins: '*:*' });
////////////////////////////////////////////////
// EVENT HANDLERS
////////////////////////////////////////////////
io.sockets.on('connection', function (socket) {
function log() {
var array = [">>> Message from server: "];
for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++) {
array.push(arguments[i]);
}
socket.emit('log', array);
}
socket.on('message', function (message) {
log('Got message: ', message);
logger.info("message: ", message);
socket.broadcast.to(socket.room).emit('message', message);
});
socket.on('create or join', function (message) {
var room = message.room;
socket.room = room;
var participantID = message.from;
configNameSpaceChannel(participantID);
io.of('/').in(room).clients(function (error, clients) {
var numClients = clients.length;
log('Room ' + room + ' has ' + numClients + ' client(s)');
log('Request to create or join room', room);
if (numClients == 0) {
logger.info(participantID + " joined first. Creates room " + room);
socket.join(room);
socket.emit('created', room);
} else {
logger.info(participantID + " joins room " + room);
io.sockets.in(room).emit('join', room);
socket.join(room);
socket.emit('joined', room);
}
})
});
// Setup a communication channel (namespace) to communicate with a given participant (participantID)
function configNameSpaceChannel(room) {
var nsp = '/' + room;
var socketNamespace = io.of(nsp);
logger.info('ConfigNameSpaceChannel:' + nsp);
socketNamespace.on('connection', function (socket) {
socket.on('message', function (message) {
// Send message to everyone BUT sender
socket.broadcast.emit('message', message);
});
});
return socketNamespace;
}
});