Does not detect connection close in double-listen configuration about websocat HOT 3 OPEN

Specifying listeners on both parts is typically not a good idea. What do you want to do?

Some things that may help:

1. Specifying -E option to terminate connections more aggressively;
2. Using reuse-raw: overlay (or maybe reuse-broadcast:, depending on use case);
3. Using autoreconnect: (especially with some form of connection reuser).

Command line that works reasonably for me:

websocat --text -E ws-l:127.0.0.1:5818 reuse-raw:autoreconnect:tcp-l:127.0.0.1:5819

Note that port 5819 only starts being listened after the first WebSocket clients gets connected.

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Thanks very much for those overlays. I'd tried -E before with no luck, but using the options you suggested together seems to do the trick.

What I'm doing is, specifically, https://nabu.run (https://youtu.be/zabJhYvoI1k). It may not be a good idea to listen on both parts, but it is exactly what I need. Being able to do that with websocat makes my application possible, and saves me having to write my own proxy.

The situation I was trying to avoid was that if you clicked the "Connect WebSocket" button and then closed it or reloaded the page, it couldn't be used again.

Not sure if there's still a bug worth fixing, but I feel like I have a reasonable workaround now.

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