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People often forget that you have to poll to handle lost network connections, IP changes, etc., so there isn't always a real-world win to web sockets.

• mdavid626 2y ago
  How about reconnecting the websocket from the client?
  • dehrmann 2y ago
    Sounds like polling. On an inactive connection, whatever it is, you have to always be polling to see if the connection is still alive.
    • mdavid626 2y ago
      What do you mean? The client knows when the websocket connection goes down and just reconnects. How is this polling?
      • malkosta 2y ago
        Because it always needs some sort of keep alive, which is many times hidden inside the client/web framework
        • mdavid626 2y ago
          But isn't a keep alive bit better than a "full" polling?