diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index cb658e06c113..dec8fedccb6f 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -399,3 +399,4 @@ a license to everyone to use it as detailed in LICENSE.)
 * Timothy Trindle <titrindl@microsoft.com> (copyright owned by Microsoft, Inc.)
 * Matthew Andres Moreno <m.more500@gmail.com>
 * Eric Mandel <eric@cfa.harvard.edu>
+* Amir Rasouli <arasouli91@gmail.com>
diff --git a/system/include/emscripten/websocket.h b/system/include/emscripten/websocket.h
index c8df6575903c..1dacb162294e 100644
--- a/system/include/emscripten/websocket.h
+++ b/system/include/emscripten/websocket.h
@@ -113,3 +113,7 @@ EMSCRIPTEN_RESULT emscripten_websocket_delete(EMSCRIPTEN_WEBSOCKET_T socket);
 // even after the pthread quits, although be warned that if the target thread that was registered to handle events for a given WebSocket quits, then those
 // events will stop from being delivered altogether.
 void emscripten_websocket_deinitialize(void);
+  
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+} // ~extern "C"
+#endif