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Id: 52043
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: AnyEvent-IRC
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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: LEEDO [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Wishlist
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  Tue Nov 24 16:30:58 2009 LEEDO [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: only ping server if no traffic since last ping
It seems wasteful to pint the server if you you have received traffic since the last ping/pong. The POE IRC reconnecter keeps track a "seen traffic" flag between each ping and doesn't send the ping if the flag is set. http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook/IRC_Bot_Reconnecting I'm not sure if this should replace the current ping functionality or not. Would this be worth adding? Or is it something people should be doing themselves?
  Wed Nov 25 07:43:29 2009 elmex [...] ta-sa.org - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #52043] only ping server if no traffic since last ping
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:19:00 +0100
To: Lee Aylward via RT <bug-AnyEvent-IRC [...] rt.cpan.org>
From: Robin Redeker <elmex [...] ta-sa.org>
Hi Lee! On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:30:59PM -0500, Lee Aylward via RT wrote: Show quoted text
> Tue Nov 24 16:30:58 2009: Request 52043 was acted upon. > Transaction: Ticket created by LEEDO > Queue: AnyEvent-IRC > Subject: only ping server if no traffic since last ping > Broken in: (no value) > Severity: Wishlist > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: LEEDO@cpan.org > Status: new > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52043 > > > > It seems wasteful to pint the server if you you have received traffic > since the last ping/pong. The POE IRC reconnecter keeps track a "seen > traffic" flag between each ping and doesn't send the ping if the flag is > set. > > http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook/IRC_Bot_Reconnecting > > I'm not sure if this should replace the current ping functionality or > not. Would this be worth adding? Or is it something people should be > doing themselves?
Usually servers PING you if you don't send stuff within a certain amount of time. The automatic client side PING is sent for two reasons: First it signals the server that we are still alive, and second it kind of acts as TCP keep-alive for platforms where that is not enabled. As server usually send you PINGs if you don't send any traffic a "seen traffic" flag would't really save that much traffic. It might still be worth adding for some special use cases. I'm open for patches :-) Greetings, Robin -- Robin Redeker | Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG elmex@ta-sa.org / r.redeker@gmail.com | http://www.deliantra.net http://www.ta-sa.org/ |
  Wed Nov 25 07:43:29 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Wed Nov 25 11:23:10 2009 LEEDO [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Wed Nov 25 07:43:29 2009, ELMEX wrote: Show quoted text
> > Usually servers PING you if you don't send stuff within a certain > amount of time. The automatic client side PING is sent for two > reasons: > First it signals the server that we are still alive, and second it > kind of acts as TCP keep-alive for platforms where that is not > enabled. > > As server usually send you PINGs if you don't send any traffic a "seen > traffic" > flag would't really save that much traffic. > > It might still be worth adding for some special use cases. > I'm open for patches :-) > > > Greetings, > Robin >
I see, that makes it a bit more clear. My main use case for PINGing is to check if I have been disconnected (specifically after waking up my laptop from sleep.) I think I will implement this for my application and see how much work is involved. Thanks!
  Tue Mar 01 02:31:44 2011 elmex [...] ta-sa.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'