client: ping support about tokio-tungstenite HOT 4 CLOSED

We will definitely implement this eventually, we require these things for our product, but at the moment they are not in a priority as we have many other tasks to do, unfortunately neither I nor Alexey had time to add this support, but it should not be a complex thing, we just have to find some time to add this and fix several relevant issues (you might have noticed that all these things are already implemented internally in tungstenite-rs, we just need to update and extend the public interfaces of some modules).

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There is support for user pings in core Tungstenite, it is just not wrapped for Tokio. To be done.

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Yeah, it's a good question how to make this implementation and stay compatible with the Stream requirements. When you split the WebSocketStream into 2 halves: Stream (incoming messages) and Sink (outcoming messages), each of them is a stream of Messages. Thus we can push messages to the sink and retrieve messages from the sink.

One of the simpliest solutions which comes to my mind is to add an additional function to the Message, something like Message::control(...) or Message::ping(...), in this case you can send it to the sink like any other message, so it's very simple and does not even require changes in the user's code. By the way, this would also solve #4.

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Any plans to implement this soon? I think it's an important feature to have reliable web sockets.

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