fix: avoid incrementing readErrCount for temporary errors and reset o…

[yangdm0209]

Commit title

fix: avoid incrementing readErrCount for temporary errors and reset on successful read

Description

• Do not increment readErrCount for temporary errors such as timeouts, as they do not indicate actual connection failures.
• Reset readErrCount after successful read operations to reflect the true health status of the connection.
• This prevents readErrCount from growing due to normal timeout logic and provides a more accurate error state.

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• Go Version Update
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Description

This PR addresses an issue where readErrCount was incremented on all errors, including temporary errors such as timeouts. Since timeouts often occur as part of normal connection management, especially when read deadlines are used, counting them as errors could lead to misleading high error counts and unnecessary connection termination or misreporting.

Now, only permanent errors cause readErrCount to increase, and a successful read resets this counter, better reflecting the real stability of the connection.

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[ghost]

Although the underlying network connection may still be usable after returning an error, a websocket.Conn becomes unusable once its underlying connection encounters an error.

The readErr field reflects the health status of the websocket.Conn. It is set to a non-nil value when reads are no longer possible.

The readErrCount field tracks how many times the application has attempted to read from an unusable connection. Resetting this counter does not affect the actual health status of the connection.

None of the above prevents the normal use of a read deadline to detect when the peer is not sending data as expected.

Edit: Because the websocket.Conn does call read on the underlying connection after a read error is encountered, the statement c.readErrCount = 0 is only executed when c.readErrCount is zero. The actual effect of this PR is that a temporary error may propagate to the application. The PR does not do what OP thinks it does.