I would like to use some simple Javascript code I have written, with any public XMPP server using WebSockets. I have seen multiple examples of this and wrote my code accordingly. I am not using any javascript or XMPP libraries and would prefer to keep it that way.

I am opening my websocket with socket = new WebSocket("ws://xmpp.xyz"); and have tried over a dozen servers. My application does not need encryption and therefore doesn't use wss://.

The error returned in chrome's console is "WebSocket connection to 'ws://xmpp.xyz/' failed:". I have been able to successfully open a websocket to the external echo server echo.websocket.events/.ws. Using chrome's network inspect, I see the socket open successfully and my stanza's being sent and received correctly with callback functions.

I now wonder if all the examples I had read, were for servers being hosted in a company network, and none of the public XMPP servers will accept my websocket connection request. If they can accept my request is there something else I need in my url? Based on some of the examples, I have tried a few ports like 80, 5280 and some additions to my url (such as "ws://jabber.org:80/ws/").