diff --git a/packages/playwright-cloudflare/src/cloudflare/webSocketTransport.ts b/packages/playwright-cloudflare/src/cloudflare/webSocketTransport.ts
index eee13c144..22d1b0401 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-cloudflare/src/cloudflare/webSocketTransport.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-cloudflare/src/cloudflare/webSocketTransport.ts
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ export class WebSocketTransport implements ConnectionTransport {
   private _ws: WebSocket;
   private _pingInterval: NodeJS.Timer;
   private _chunks: Uint8Array[] = [];
+  private _disableChunking: boolean;
   onmessage?: (message: ProtocolResponse) => void;
   onclose?: () => void;
   readonly sessionId: string;
@@ -23,13 +24,20 @@ export class WebSocketTransport implements ConnectionTransport {
     return transport;
   }
 
-  constructor(ws: WebSocket, sessionId: string) {
+  constructor(ws: WebSocket, sessionId: string, { disableChunking = false } = {}) {
     this._pingInterval = setInterval(() => {
       return this._ws.send('ping');
     }, 1000); // TODO more investigation
     this._ws = ws;
     this.sessionId = sessionId;
+    this._disableChunking = disableChunking;
     this._ws.addEventListener('message', event => {
+      if (this._disableChunking) {
+        if (event.data && this.onmessage)
+          this.onmessage!(JSON.parse(event.data as string) as ProtocolResponse);
+        return;
+      }
+
       this._chunks.push(new Uint8Array(event.data as ArrayBuffer));
       const message = chunksToMessage(this._chunks, sessionId);
       if (message && this.onmessage)
@@ -48,6 +56,10 @@ export class WebSocketTransport implements ConnectionTransport {
   }
 
   send(message: ProtocolRequest): void {
+    if (this._disableChunking) {
+      this._ws.send(JSON.stringify(message));
+      return;
+    }
     for (const chunk of messageToChunks(JSON.stringify(message)))
       this._ws.send(chunk);
   }
diff --git a/packages/playwright-cloudflare/src/index.ts b/packages/playwright-cloudflare/src/index.ts
index 51330adfe..b07e22161 100644
--- a/packages/playwright-cloudflare/src/index.ts
+++ b/packages/playwright-cloudflare/src/index.ts
@@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ const originalConnectOverCDP = playwright.chromium.connectOverCDP;
   const wsEndpoint = typeof endpointURLOrOptions === 'string' ? endpointURLOrOptions : endpointURLOrOptions.wsEndpoint ?? endpointURLOrOptions.endpointURL;
   if (!wsEndpoint)
     throw new Error('No wsEndpoint provided');
+
+  if (isExternalWebSocketEndpoint(wsEndpoint)) {
+    return connectToExternalWebSocket(wsEndpoint);
+  }
+
   const wsUrl = new URL(wsEndpoint);
   // by default, playwright.chromium.connectOverCDP enforces persistent to true (the default behavior upstream)
   if (!wsUrl.searchParams.has('persistent'))
@@ -45,6 +50,35 @@ const originalConnectOverCDP = playwright.chromium.connectOverCDP;
     : launch(wsUrl.toString());
 };
 
+function extractSessionIdFromUrl(wsEndpoint: string): string | undefined {
+  const url = new URL(wsEndpoint);
+  const sessionId = url.searchParams.get('browser_session') ?? undefined;
+  return sessionId;
+}
+
+async function connectToExternalWebSocket(wsEndpoint: string): Promise<Browser> {
+  resetMonotonicTime();
+  const webSocket = new WebSocket(wsEndpoint);
+  await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+    webSocket.addEventListener('open', () => {
+      resolve(webSocket);
+    });
+    webSocket.addEventListener('error', (error) => {
+      reject(error);
+    });
+  });
+
+  const sessionId = extractSessionIdFromUrl(wsEndpoint);
+    
+  const transport = new WebSocketTransport(webSocket, sessionId ?? '', { disableChunking: true });
+  
+  return await createBrowser(transport, { persistent: true });
+}
+
+function isExternalWebSocketEndpoint(endpoint: string): boolean {
+  return endpoint.startsWith('ws://') || endpoint.startsWith('wss://');
+}
+
 async function connectDevtools(endpoint: BrowserEndpoint, options: { sessionId: string, persistent?: boolean }): Promise<WebSocket> {
   resetMonotonicTime();
   const url = new URL(`${HTTP_FAKE_HOST}/v1/connectDevtools`);