Re: [Pharo-users] Problem with ZnWebSocket and closed connections

[Davide Varvello via Pharo-users]

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Hi Sven,
Thanks for your reply.
I supposed that the ping/pong feature would have helped (I'm not an expert,
but I found something about it on the net).
Tomorrow I'm gonna try your updated runWith: and I'll feedback you.

Thanks
Davide


Sven Van Caekenberghe-2 wrote
> Hi Davide,
> 
> First I'll explain why you see a difference in behaviour, then I'll give
> you a solution.
> 
> Network connections are expensive resources, most servers try to close
> them as soon as possible when they are not used.
> 
> Zinc HTTP Components does not normally close connections by itself,
> although timeouts do naturally occur.
> 
> The WebSocket code normally loops on the server side when timeouts occur
> while waiting for incoming messages (more specifically in
> ZnWebSocket>>#runWith:). Note that even though it loops, there is no
> actual communication.
> 
> Both previous facts, not closing unused connections and looping on
> timeouts, result in a working echo/chat example, when run locally.
> 
> When you put a proxy in front of this, the proxy (like nginx) might decide
> to close an unused connection. This is allowed and it is what you are
> seeing. This is not an error and thus normal.
> 
> Of course, you might want to keep such connection open for longer, even if
> they are not used. This can be done by keeping them alive. Note however
> that this might result in many open connections.
> 
> How do you keep a connection alive ?
> 
> One solution is to do this at the application level.
> ZnWebSocketStatusHandler does this by sending a message every second.
> 
> The WebSocket protocol (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455) does define a
> number of control messages, all which were already implemented as such.
> Two of these messages, ping & pong, are meant to be used for implementing
> keep alive. Client side, this was already done
> (ZnWebSocket>>#handleControlFrame:).
> 
> I now added automatic keep alive message sending server side as well.
> 
> This can be seen in the updated implementation of ZnWebSocket>>#runWith: 
> 
> https://github.com/svenvc/zinc/commit/9073acc2fad197c2787c6cd0f4d315981ebb98b5
> 
> Now, whenever the read times out (as defined by the socket stream's
> timeout, a Zn setting), a ping control packet is sent to keep the
> connection alive, the client will answer with a pong, and then the server
> loops.
> 
> This should be sufficient to solve your issue (but both the proxy's as
> well as the Zn timeout need to be compatible, Zn's needs to be smaller).
> 
> Please let me know if this works for you.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Sven
> 
>> On 23 Feb 2020, at 18:19, Davide Varvello via Pharo-users <

> pharo-users@.pharo

> > wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> From: Davide Varvello <

> varvello@

> >
>> Subject: Re: Problem with ZnWebSocket and closed connections
>> Date: 23 February 2020 at 18:19:02 GMT+1
>> To: 

> pharo-users@.pharo

>> 
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I put nginx as a websocket proxy and I run the ZnWebSocketEchoHandler.
>> Unfortunately also with this configuration the connection closes it after
>> a
>> couple of minutes of inactivity
>> 
>> Cheers
>> Davide
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>>





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