diff --git a/bigbluebutton-client/resources/prod/lib/bbb_api_bridge.js b/bigbluebutton-client/resources/prod/lib/bbb_api_bridge.js
index ee2d91e83d73ce2902faaaad4f69af4ee3bc1dfa..9e5bcaaf0195d30a90eb64e3a9eeb65271038b31 100755
--- a/bigbluebutton-client/resources/prod/lib/bbb_api_bridge.js
+++ b/bigbluebutton-client/resources/prod/lib/bbb_api_bridge.js
@@ -607,18 +607,13 @@
     }
     **/
     
-      const eb = new vertx.EventBus("http://192.168.246.131:3001/eventbus");
+      const eb = new vertx.EventBus("https://ritz-ss.blindside-dev.com/eventbus");
       eb.onopen = function () {
             console.log("FOOOO!!!!!");
             eb.registerHandler("chat.to.client", function (msg) {
                 console.log("From server: " + msg + "\n");
                 BBB.onMessageFromDS(msg);
             });
-    
-            eb.send("foo-bar", "ValidateAuthToken", function(msg) {
-                console.log("reply: " + msg + "\n");
-                
-            });
       };
       
     BBB.sendToDeepstream = function(data) {
diff --git a/labs/vertx-akka/nginx/haproxy.cfg b/labs/vertx-akka/nginx/haproxy.cfg
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a1b12ededed03f919ada50610feb213fbfc0e9d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/labs/vertx-akka/nginx/haproxy.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+frontend ssl-in
+        mode tcp
+        log-format %ci:%cp\ [%t]\ %ft\ %b/%s\ %Tw/%Tc/%Tt\ %U:%B\ %ts\ %ac/%fc/%bc/%sc/%rc\ %hr\ %hs\ %sq/%bq
+
+        bind *:443,:::443 ssl crt /etc/ssl/ritz-ss.blindside-dev.com/ritz-ss.blindside-dev.com.pem
+
+        # Detect RTMP traffic
+        # The first byte must be 0x03 (version 3)
+        acl rtmp_handshake_ver req.payload(0,1) -m bin 03
+
+        # RTMP has a fixed-size handshake: 1 byte version + 1536 byte data.
+        # This acl causes haproxy to not detect a request as rtmp unless
+        # it's received at least that much data (and didn't match other things)
+        #acl rtmp_handshake_size req.len ge 1537
+        acl rtmp_handshake_size req.len ge 1
+
+        acl is_websocket path_beg -i /eventbus
+        #acl is_websocket hdr(Upgrade) -i WebSocket
+
+        # haproxy has built-in HTTP detection
+
+        # If we haven't received enough data to identify the protocol after
+        # 30 seconds, drop the connection
+        tcp-request inspect-delay 30s
+
+        tcp-request content accept if rtmp_handshake_ver rtmp_handshake_size
+        tcp-request content accept if HTTP
+
+        use_backend vertx if is_websocket
+        use_backend red5 if rtmp_handshake_ver rtmp_handshake_size
+        use_backend nginx if HTTP
+
+backend nginx
+        mode http
+        option forwardfor
+        reqadd X-Forwarded-Proto:\ https
+        server nginx 127.0.0.1:80
+
+backend red5
+        mode tcp
+        server red5 127.0.0.1:1935
+
+backend vertx
+        server vertx 127.0.0.1:3001
diff --git a/labs/vertx-akka/src/main/webapp/webroot/chat.html b/labs/vertx-akka/src/main/webapp/webroot/chat.html
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3caf52f2e56267a805e8d7e03d3571e14be62ff8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/labs/vertx-akka/src/main/webapp/webroot/chat.html
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+<!--
+  #%L
+  distributed-chat-service
+  %%
+  Copyright (C) 2015 Zanclus Consulting
+  %%
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+  
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+  
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+  #L%
+  -->
+<html>
+<head>
+  <title>Distributed Chat Service</title>
+  <meta charset="UTF-8">
+  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
+  <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.2.min.js"></script>
+  <script src="//cdn.jsdelivr.net/sockjs/0.3.4/sockjs.min.js"></script>
+  <script src="vertxbus.js"></script>
+  <style>
+    .inset {
+      box-shadow: inset 0 0 4px #000000;
+      -moz-box-shadow: inset 0 0 4px #000000;
+      -webkit-box-shadow: inset 0 0 4px #000000;
+      width: 400px;
+      border-width: 4px;
+      padding: 5px;
+    }
+
+    input.inset {
+      height: 40px;
+    }
+
+    div.inset {
+      height: 500px;
+      white-space: pre-wrap
+    }
+  </style>
+</head>
+<body>
+<script>
+  //var eb = new vertx.EventBus("https://192.168.23.33:3001/eventbus");
+  var eb = new vertx.EventBus("http://192.168.246.131:3001/eventbus");
+  eb.onopen = function () {
+    eb.registerHandler("chat.to.client", function (msg) {
+      $('#chat').append(msg + "\n");
+    });
+    
+    eb.send("foo-bar", "ValidateAuthToken", function(msg) {
+      $('#chat').append("reply: " + msg + "\n");
+    });
+  };
+
+  function send(event) {
+    if (event.keyCode == 13 || event.which == 13) {
+      var message = $('#input').val();
+      if (message.length > 0) {
+        console.log($('#input'));
+        eb.publish("chat.to.server", message);
+        $('#input').val("");
+      }
+    }
+  }
+</script>
+<div id="chat" class="inset"></div>
+<input id="input" type="text" onkeydown="send(event)" class="inset">
+</body>
+</html>