WebSocket gets disconnected

[Jaykul]

Has anyone been using this library to make bots or clients that rely on the WebSocket connection staying connected? Mine seems to get disconnected after awhile but without any errors I can spot...

[Inumedia]

@Jaykul , have you had any luck with this? It could just be sporadic connectivity issues on either end of the connection.

[jamiepenney]

I've had this issue with other libraries - I think it's a case of the websocket being closed from Slack's end rather than an error in the library. The solution in the nodejs library I used was to detect when the connection dropped and retry it, up to a maximum number of retries. Might be something that's needed here too? I've only just started using this library but I will take a quick look and see if I can figure out where this should go.

[dherzog90]

same problem here, websocket is closed after awhile without any exceptions.

[iclaxton]

I think I have traced this down to a bug detailed in this article: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40502921/net-websockets-forcibly-closed-despite-keep-alive-and-activity-on-the-connectio

For this to be the cause you will see a disconnect after about 100 seconds. If this is not the case you just need to create a timer to manage a ping /pong exchange and reconnect if unsuccessful.

There is a workaround but there will need to be a more permanent fix.

Best regards

Ian