Unreliable Local WebSocket Forwarding via Smee Client
A developer running a Dockerized service on WSL2 cannot reliably forward webhook/websocket traffic from a remote server to their local machine using smee-client, hitting ECONNREFUSED errors despite the tunnel showing activity. Sparse documentation for smee-specific error scenarios makes debugging local tunnel forwarding difficult for developers.
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