How can i temporarily disable websocket in Google Chrome?

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To begin, I’d say that there are better mechanisms to test your JavaScript in a websocketless environment. You could run your JavaScript in IE9, for instance, which doesn’t implement the protocol. They’re still disabled for the moment in Firefox 4 as well, if that’s more your style.

Assuming that there’s some good reason that you need to test in a websocketless Chromium, I think you’re out of luck. There’s not a trivial mechanism to disable WebSockets in Chromium. It’s not built in as a command-line switch, nor is there a configurable flag. Since there’s no mechanism to make this happen natively, I wouldn’t suggest spending time testing the scenario. Every version of Chromium that your users use (e.g. 9+) has websockets enabled.

All that said, if you really need to disable websockets, the closest you can get without recompiling the browser would be to drop the relevant variables in your test code:

WebSocket = undefined;

would be relatively brute force, but should work. You could even create an extension to inject that JavaScript into every page you visit, for a truly websocketless experience (assuming, again, that that’s somehow valuable for your use case).

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