From 7b9c09e2360ed666bbc74d48387dd9c9c1276710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Oliff <luke@lukeoliff.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2023 15:10:52 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: a wild fix for this has appeared (#200)

---
 src/lib/helpers.ts         |  1 +
 src/packages/LiveClient.ts | 12 ++++--------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/helpers.ts b/src/lib/helpers.ts
index 7e8e65ee..de979566 100644
--- a/src/lib/helpers.ts
+++ b/src/lib/helpers.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ export function stripTrailingSlash(url: string): string {
 }
 
 export const isBrowser = () => typeof window !== "undefined";
+export const isServer = () => typeof process !== "undefined";
 
 export function applySettingDefaults(
   options: DeepgramClientOptions,
diff --git a/src/packages/LiveClient.ts b/src/packages/LiveClient.ts
index 12501c15..cda1d241 100644
--- a/src/packages/LiveClient.ts
+++ b/src/packages/LiveClient.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { AbstractWsClient } from "./AbstractWsClient";
-import { appendSearchParams, isBrowser } from "../lib/helpers";
+import { appendSearchParams, isServer } from "../lib/helpers";
 import { DeepgramError } from "../lib/errors";
 import { DEFAULT_OPTIONS } from "../lib/constants";
 import { LiveConnectionState, LiveTranscriptionEvents } from "../lib/enums";
@@ -28,19 +28,15 @@ export class LiveClient extends AbstractWsClient {
     url.protocol = url.protocol.toLowerCase().replace(/(http)(s)?/gi, "ws$2");
     appendSearchParams(url.searchParams, this.transcriptionOptions);
 
-    try {
+    if (isServer()) {
       this._socket = new WebSocket(url.toString(), {
         headers: {
           Authorization: `token ${this.key}`,
           ...this.options?.global?.headers,
         },
       });
-    } catch (e) {
-      if (e instanceof SyntaxError) {
-        this._socket = new WebSocket(url.toString(), ["token", this.key]);
-      } else {
-        throw e; // let others bubble up
-      }
+    } else {
+      this._socket = new WebSocket(url.toString(), ["token", this.key]);
     }
 
     this._socket.onopen = () => {