# Protocol upgrade mechanism — {{HTTPHeader("Sec-WebSocket-Extensions")}}

> Specifies one or more protocol-level WebSocket extensions to ask the server to use.

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Specifies one or more protocol-level WebSocket extensions to ask the server to use. Using more than one Sec-WebSocket-Extension header in a request is permitted; the result is the same as if you included all of the listed extensions in one such header.

extensions : A comma-separated list of extensions to request (or agree to support). These should be selected from the IANA WebSocket Extension Name Registry. Extensions which take parameters do so by using semicolon delineation.

For example, this header indicates two custom extensions: superspeed and colormode (which additionally has the parameter depth=16)

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