this patch: https://github.com/alexedwards/scs/commit/62e546ce9d2d95a370da0629bd877d9e0c4ed9a0 removed the "Hijack" method, which is required to be able to escalate http 1.1 connection to websocket. after upgrading, we now get: "websocket: response does not implement http.Hijacker", some googling relevant links: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62980183/response-does-not-implement-http-hijacker we are downgrading for now.