diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7ea0cff9..a80ff74a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ A preview of the next release can be installed from
 - Bump integrant CI tests
 - [#1600](https://github.com/babashka/babashka/issues/1600): use pagesize of 64K on linux aarch64, so it works on Asahi linux
 - Expose `selmer.parser/resolve-arg`
+- #1610: expose `babashka.http-client.websocket` namespace
 
 ## 1.3.182 (2023-07-20)
 
diff --git a/src/babashka/dude.clj b/src/babashka/dude.clj
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6a984cf7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/babashka/dude.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+(ns babashka.dude
+  (:require [clojure-csv.core :as csv]
+            [clojure.java.io :as io]
+            [clojure.string :as string]))
+
+csv/x
+io/x
+string/x 
diff --git a/src/babashka/impl/http_client.clj b/src/babashka/impl/http_client.clj
index 1c1f52d2..c07ccfe7 100644
--- a/src/babashka/impl/http_client.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/impl/http_client.clj
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 (ns babashka.impl.http-client
   (:require
    [babashka.http-client]
+   [babashka.http-client.websocket]
    [sci.core :as sci]))
 
 (def hns (sci/create-ns 'babashka.http-client))
+(def wns (sci/create-ns 'babashka.http-client.websocket))
 
 (def http-client-namespace
   (sci/copy-ns babashka.http-client hns))
 
+(def http-client-websocket-namespace
+  (sci/copy-ns babashka.http-client.websocket wns))
+
diff --git a/src/babashka/main.clj b/src/babashka/main.clj
index 76ed9676..54192d80 100644
--- a/src/babashka/main.clj
+++ b/src/babashka/main.clj
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
    [babashka.impl.error-handler :refer [error-handler]]
    [babashka.impl.features :as features]
    [babashka.impl.fs :refer [fs-namespace]]
-   [babashka.impl.http-client :refer [http-client-namespace]]
+   [babashka.impl.http-client :refer [http-client-namespace http-client-websocket-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.nrepl-server :refer [nrepl-server-namespace]]
    [babashka.impl.pods :as pods]
    [babashka.impl.pprint :refer [pprint-namespace]]
@@ -419,7 +419,8 @@ Use bb run --help to show this help output.
     'edamame.core edamame-namespace
     'sci.core sci-core-namespace
     'babashka.cli cli/cli-namespace
-    'babashka.http-client http-client-namespace}
+    'babashka.http-client http-client-namespace
+    'babashka.http-client.websocket http-client-websocket-namespace}
     features/xml? (assoc 'clojure.data.xml @(resolve 'babashka.impl.xml/xml-namespace)
                          'clojure.data.xml.event @(resolve 'babashka.impl.xml/xml-event-namespace)
                          'clojure.data.xml.tree @(resolve 'babashka.impl.xml/xml-tree-namespace))