WebSockets - connection keeps closing after 1 minute

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:57:40AM -0500, WGH wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> My WebSocket connections keep closing after precisely one minute. 
> The configuration is the same as provided in that commit comment.
> http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/5073/nginx
> 
> Direct connections to the server (without intermediate nginx) happily live
> for many hours.
> 
> What option should I change to fix that?

There is proxy_read_timeout (http://nginx.org/r/proxy_read_timeout) 
which as well applies to WebSocket connections.  You have to bump 
it if your backend do not send anything for a long time.  
Alternatively, you may configure your backend to send websocket 
ping frames periodically to reset the timeout (and check if the 
connection is still alive).

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Maxim Dounin
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