How to decide the Ping interval for websocket connection

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Li Haoyi picture Li Haoyi · Jan 29, 2013 · Viewed 11.3k times · Source

I understand the Ping is to help prevent proxies from closing idle connections. Is there any guidelines w.r.t. how often to ping? Once every second? 10 seconds? Minute? Does it even matter? A preliminary google search gives me nothing, and the websocket spec only says what a ping is, not how often you should do it

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Cade W. picture Cade W. · Aug 11, 2014

I know this is an old question, but i've also been in search for an answer. The previous answer does not make mention of the interval, so I searched through some code of some popular websocket frameworks. Not that this is official, but at least it gives a starting point: this repo makes use of 20 second intervals. I'm not sure if that 100% correct, but its better than "often", or "somewhat frequently".

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