Infinite loop with autoreconnect:reuse about websocat HOT 3 OPEN

Indeed, autoreconnect:reuse: does not make much sense. Maybe I'll implement a lint that shows a warning when trying to use such combination.

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My ultimate use case is periodically (e.g. every second or via tail) reading a file, filtering lines, and dumping results to a (real) server. I'd rather not reconnect every second so I was experimenting with reuse/reconnect to act as a pseudo-persistent connection.

Something like

tail -f some_file.txt | websocat -ut - ws://127.0.0.1:12345

? Why do you need reuse:?

Also note that reuse: have two modes: reuse-raw: and broadcast: (the default). They have different buffering behaviour and sometimes single client mode (raw) works better.

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I was originally thinking of sending frequent batches via cron, or a script loop, and reuse seemed like a way to try to keep connections open instead of opening a new one for every batch. With a streaming approach it's not needed.

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