676196 - Recover from disconnection

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(support.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Chat, defect, P2)

Description

[Erik Rose [:erik][:erikrose]]

If network gremlins attack and the socketio connection is broken, socketio seems to try to establish a new one. However, when the JS sees the "connect" event and tries to do the nonce dance to re-identify, the nonce has of course, long expired. Figure out something good to do in this case. Perhaps we can shove the nonce back into redis if we detect the connection timing out (i.e. when we call leave_all()). In that case, does it become an ntwice? ;-) Worst case, we can scream and make the user reload the page, but that would lose the chat history so far, so I'd like to avoid it.

Comment 1

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Live Chat rewrite bugs -> Future

Comment 2

[James Socol [:jsocol, :james]]

Closing out a number of new chat system bugs. If we revisit in the future we'll almost certainly start over.