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The Content-Security-Policy HTTP response header helps you reduce XSS risks on modern browsers by declaring which dynamic resources are allowed to load. If you are making use of CSP, add the Gleap sources to the following directives. This is the complete allowlist — merge each line into the matching directive of your existing policy ('self' stands in for whatever your policy already allows):
*.gleap.io covers the EU data region and the global hosts that every region uses (SDK, messenger app, static assets). *.gleap.ai covers the US data region (api.us.gleap.ai, ws.us.gleap.ai, sockets.us.gleap.ai, …); a CSP host wildcard matches subdomains at any depth. We recommend allowing both, regardless of your region. US projects always need both.
Bundling the SDK yourself (via npm) does not shrink this list. Gleap is effectively two apps: the SDK inside your bundle, and the messenger app the SDK loads at runtime from messenger-app.gleap.io. Even with no <script src="...gleap..."> tag on your page, the messenger’s script and stylesheet still load from a Gleap origin and are checked against your script-src and style-src.

Why each directive is needed

The messenger loads in a chain, and each step is checked against a different directive — allowing one step does not allow the next:
  1. connect-src — the SDK fetch()es the messenger document from https://messenger-app.gleap.io. Having the host in frame-src is not enough: a fetch of an iframe’s host is still a fetch. (API calls to api.gleap.io, or api.us.gleap.ai in the US region, need this too.)
  2. script-src / style-src — the messenger’s <script> and <link rel="stylesheet"> load from messenger-app.gleap.io into a frame that inherits your page’s policy.
  3. connect-src (wss:) — the SDK opens wss://ws.gleap.io and the messenger opens wss://sockets.gleap.io (US region: wss://ws.us.gleap.ai and wss://sockets.us.gleap.ai). The https:// wildcards do not cover these: schemes are matched separately, so wss:// sources must be listed on their own.
  4. frame-src, font-src, img-src, media-src — the widget frame itself, plus fonts, images and media (e.g. attachments, avatars, voice messages) served from Gleap origins.
If any single step is blocked, the launcher simply does not appear — check the browser console for Content Security Policy errors and add the reported origin to the directive named in the error.
script-src needs 'unsafe-inline' or a nonce (see Nonce-based and strict-dynamic policies below). The SDK loads the messenger into a frame that inherits your page’s policy, and it writes one small inline script into that frame to set the messenger’s route. Without 'unsafe-inline' or a nonce that inline script is blocked, and features that open on a specific route (banners, modals, direct links to a conversation) can render the wrong view. If you would rather not allow 'unsafe-inline' at all, use a nonce.
We strongly recommend using the https://*.gleap.io, https://*.gleap.ai, wss://*.gleap.io and wss://*.gleap.ai wildcards. The SDK contacts several Gleap subdomains (api.gleap.io, ws.gleap.io, sockets.gleap.io, messenger-app.gleap.io, outboundmedia.gleap.io, app.gleap.io, js.gleap.io; in the US region api.us.gleap.ai, ws.us.gleap.ai and sockets.us.gleap.ai take the place of the first three), and the list may grow as we ship new features. Note that the https:// wildcards do not cover WebSocket connections — wss:// origins must be allowed separately.

WebSockets in connect-src

Gleap uses two WebSocket endpoints, and both must be allowed:
  • wss://ws.gleap.io (US region: wss://ws.us.gleap.ai) — session and event streaming used by the JavaScript SDK.
  • wss://sockets.gleap.io (US region: wss://sockets.us.gleap.ai) — realtime delivery of conversations and notifications in the messenger.
If you’d rather not list them individually, allow wss://*.gleap.io and wss://*.gleap.ai.
Gleap previously relied on Pusher for realtime messaging, which required *.pusher.com entries in connect-src. Realtime traffic now runs entirely on Gleap infrastructure (wss://sockets.gleap.io, or wss://sockets.us.gleap.ai in the US region), so any https://*.pusher.com or wss://*.pusher.com entries you added for Gleap can be removed.

Nonce-based and strict-dynamic policies

If your policy is nonce-based, the SDK can carry your nonce on everything it creates, including the messenger bundle and the inline route script described above. This requires SDK 16.3.4 or newer. The simplest setup is to put your nonce on the SDK’s own <script> tag. The SDK reads it from there automatically, and no further configuration is needed:
If your loader cannot put the nonce on that tag (some tag managers and bundlers cannot), pass it explicitly before calling Gleap.initialize():
With a nonce in place you no longer need 'unsafe-inline' in script-src, and you do not need to allowlist a content hash for the inline script.
If your policy uses 'strict-dynamic', a nonce is required. 'strict-dynamic' tells the browser to ignore host-based sources entirely, so https://*.gleap.io and https://*.gleap.ai in script-src / script-src-elem have no effect and the messenger will not load without one. Hash-pinning the messenger bundle is not a workaround: its filename carries a build hash that changes with every release, and a hash source for an external script is only honored when the tag also carries a matching integrity attribute.
Note that 'strict-dynamic' only applies to script directives. frame-src, connect-src, img-src, font-src and media-src still need the origins listed above.

Cross-origin isolation (COEP / COOP)

Gleap also works on pages that opt into cross-origin isolation with Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy (COEP), in both require-corp and credentialless mode, together with Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin. No SDK setting is needed. Under COEP the browser only lets a page embed cross-origin resources that either pass a CORS check or announce themselves with Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: cross-origin. Gleap covers both cases: every API call the SDK and the messenger make is a CORS request, and every Gleap origin that the widget loads without CORS sends Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy: cross-origin. These are the global hosts sdk.gleap.io, messenger-app.gleap.io, outboundmedia.gleap.io and static.gleap.io, plus the hosts of your data region: api.gleap.io, files.gleap.io and staticfiles.gleap.io in the EU region, api.us.gleap.ai, files.us.gleap.ai and staticfiles.us.gleap.ai in the US region.
Keep https://messenger-app.gleap.io (or the https://*.gleap.io wildcard) in connect-src. The SDK fetches the messenger document and writes it into a frame that is same-origin with your page, so the messenger runs under your page’s COEP rather than as a cross-origin <iframe>. If that fetch is blocked by CSP the SDK falls back to a direct <iframe src> load, which a cross-origin-isolated page refuses because the messenger deliberately does not opt into COEP itself (it embeds third-party content such as videos in help articles). This requires SDK 16.0.10 or newer.
With require-corp, images that the messenger loads from hosts outside Gleap (for example a profile picture hosted by a third-party identity provider, or an image in a help article that is hosted elsewhere) only display if that host sends Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy too. credentialless does not have this restriction and is the recommended mode when your threat model allows it.

Strict CSPs without wildcards

If your security policy forbids wildcards, here is the full explicit allowlist the SDK uses today:
This explicit list can change without notice as we add features or migrate infrastructure. The https://*.gleap.io, https://*.gleap.ai, wss://*.gleap.io and wss://*.gleap.ai wildcards are the safest choice.
Depending on your setup you might need to do some further customizations. Please check the browser console for any CSP errors and add the reported origins to the matching directive.