On 3 Sep 2015, at 10:13, Andrej Golovnin <andrej.golov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. Will adding the ability to send ping(ByteBuffer) be sufficient for your usage? If so, then I think we should add it, but not pong. The implementation will automatically send a pong message in response to receiving a ping. OK? -Chris. > Best regards, > Andrej Golovnin