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

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