WebSocket client API

Andrej Golovnin andrej.golovnin at gmail.com
Thu Sep 3 09:13:05 UTC 2015


Hi Pavel,

> So you need the ability to send pings and unsolicited pongs. Do you handle pong
> replies from the server? If so, do you control their arrival times and their
> consistency with previous pings sent? What about unsolicited pongs from the
> server?

We use pings to ensure that firewalls do not close inactive (from
their point of view) connections. And we send some useful data with
the ping which is then processed on the server. Currently all pong
messages from the server are ignored on the client.

Best regards,
Andrej Golovnin


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