NGINX to support websocket client on the same port

[jebina]

A quick question, Does Nginx support websocket client.

I have a webserver that uses NGINX and i use a websocket server for which
NGINX acts as proxy. In the same port , can i use websocket client to
initiate a connection with the external websocket server?

config is here 

worker_processes  1;

#error_log  logs/error.log;
#error_log  logs/error.log  notice;
#error_log  logs/error.log  info;

#pid        logs/nginx.pid;


events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}

http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;

         sendfile        on;
  
    keepalive_timeout  65;

   
    map $http_upgrade $connection_upgrade {
        default upgrade;
        '' close;
    }

 upstream websocket {
        server 192.168.5.16:8080;
    }
    server {
        listen       9080;
        server_name  localhost;

   
        location / {
            root   html;
            index  index.html index.htm;
        }
	
        location /socket {
            proxy_pass http://websocket;
            proxy_http_version 1.1;
            proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
            proxy_set_header Connection $connection_upgrade;
        }
	location /test{
            hello_world;
        }
}

Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,269299,269299#msg-269299