Prevent heartbeat disconnection when browser is blocking (alert, Flash File Browser, etc.)

[tommedema]

Just before a client opens a file browser that blocks the browser's thread and thus stops heartbeats from being sent out, I'd like to temporarily increase the required heartbeat interval for this specific socket to a much higher amount.

When the user then leaves the file browser, I'd like to restore the heartbeat interval.

Would it be possible to dynamically adjust the required heartbeat interval for a specific socket?

Such logic would be much better than to reconnect. This is because reconnection would force me to store the socket's state on the server-side, so one would have to differentiate between clients that disconnect willingly and those that do not.

[rauchg]

Options re-negotiation and self-healing are coming, but right now not possible. Preserving state is still a good idea since reconnections do happen frequently =]

[tommedema]

Closing since I guess this is being worked on