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A comment on Ask HN: How do you handle WebSocket connections reconnect problem?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you handle WebSocket connections reconnect... by austin-cheney on Saturday June 03, 2023 @05:08AM (#36174975)
I wrote my own web socket library so that I can integrate authentication into the connection handshake. Since I have my own library I also wrote conventions to automatically attempt reconnects in 15 second intervals when the connection drops.

https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

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Re:Ask HN: How do you handle WebSocket connections reconnect... by jtokoph on Saturday June 03, 2023 @11:54AM (#36177663)
You may want to consider adding a random jitter and backoff to the reconnect logic. Otherwise, if the server goes down and comes back up, all clients will reconnect at the same time and overload the server.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you handle WebSocket connections reconnect... by dangitnotagain on Saturday June 03, 2023 @12:33PM (#36178055)
This is great! The whole project is useful. Thanks!
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Re:Ask HN: How do you handle WebSocket connections reconnect... by hayst4ck on Monday June 05, 2023 @08:11PM (#36206276)
Look into exponential backoff with jitter. 15 second retry logic sounds like bad news.
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