diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 264dbba1b..6f327ab4b 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -22,3 +22,6 @@
 [submodule "lib/rapidjson"]
 	path = lib/rapidjson
 	url = https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson
+[submodule "lib/websocketpp"]
+	path = lib/websocketpp
+	url = https://github.com/ziocleto/websocketpp
diff --git a/lib/websocketpp b/lib/websocketpp
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..1e0138c7c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/websocketpp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 1e0138c7ccedc6be859d28270ccd6195f235a94e