WebSocket with close code 1006

[lucaswxp]

I'm trying to debug a weird intermittent issue where the client sometimes is not able to create/connect to the websocket.

I have a simple setup:

            const ws = new Client(`ws://${vsUri}`, {max_reconnects: 0})
            ws.on('open', () => {
                console.log('its open')
            })
           ws.on('error', (e) => console.log(e)) // never called

Problem is, sometimes the 'open' is never called. I managed to monkeypatch into the rpc-websockets source code to gather more info, and I found out that ws.socket stays in the following state:

WebSocket {
  _events: 
   { open: { [Function: onOpen] _listener: [Function] },
     message: { [Function: onMessage] _listener: [Function] },
     error: { [Function: onError] _listener: [Function] },
     close: { [Function: onClose] _listener: [Function] } },
  _eventsCount: 4,
  _maxListeners: undefined,
  _binaryType: 'nodebuffer',
  _closeCode: 1006,
  _closeFrameReceived: false,
  _closeFrameSent: false,
  _closeMessage: '',
  _closeTimer: null,
  _extensions: {},
  _protocol: '',
  _readyState: 0,
  _receiver: null,
  _sender: null,
  _socket: null,
  _bufferedAmount: 0,
  _isServer: false,
  _redirects: 0,
  _url: 'ws://redacted:xxx',
  _req: 
   ClientRequest {
     _events: { error: [Function], response: [Function], upgrade: [Function] },
     _eventsCount: 3,
     _maxListeners: undefined,
     output: [],
     outputEncodings: [],
     outputCallbacks: [],
     outputSize: 0,
     writable: true,
     _last: true,
     upgrading: true,
     chunkedEncoding: false,
     shouldKeepAlive: true,
     useChunkedEncodingByDefault: false,
     sendDate: false,
     _removedConnection: false,
     _removedContLen: false,
     _removedTE: false,
     _contentLength: 0,
     _hasBody: true,
     _trailer: '',
     finished: true,
     _headerSent: true,
     socket: 
      Socket {
        connecting: false,
        _hadError: false,
        _handle: [TCP],
        _parent: null,
        _host: null,
        _readableState: [ReadableState],
        readable: true,
        _events: [Object],
        _eventsCount: 6,
        _maxListeners: undefined,
        _writableState: [WritableState],
        writable: true,
        _bytesDispatched: 228,
        _sockname: null,
        _pendingData: null,
        _pendingEncoding: '',
        allowHalfOpen: false,
        server: null,
        _server: null,
        parser: [HTTPParser],
        _httpMessage: [Circular],
        [Symbol(asyncId)]: 64,
        [Symbol(lastWriteQueueSize)]: 0,
        [Symbol(bytesRead)]: 0 },
     connection: 
      Socket {
        connecting: false,
        _hadError: false,
        _handle: [TCP],
        _parent: null,
        _host: null,
        _readableState: [ReadableState],
        readable: true,
        _events: [Object],
        _eventsCount: 6,
        _maxListeners: undefined,
        _writableState: [WritableState],
        writable: true,
        _bytesDispatched: 228,
        _sockname: null,
        _pendingData: null,
        _pendingEncoding: '',
        allowHalfOpen: false,
        server: null,
        _server: null,
        parser: [HTTPParser],
        _httpMessage: [Circular],
        [Symbol(asyncId)]: 64,
        [Symbol(lastWriteQueueSize)]: 0,
        [Symbol(bytesRead)]: 0 },
     _header: 'GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nSec-WebSocket-Version: 13\r\nSec-WebSocket-Key: /uaYfhj4eXLwTI4NXc15B2QKJQ==\r\nConnection: Upgrade\r\nUpgrade: websocket\r\nSec-WebSocket-Extensions: permessage-deflate; client_max_window_bits\r\nHost: redacted:xxx\r\n\r\n',
     _onPendingData: [Function: noopPendingOutput],
     agent: undefined,
     socketPath: undefined,
     timeout: undefined,
     method: 'GET',
     path: '/',
     _ended: false,
     res: null,
     aborted: undefined,
     timeoutCb: null,
     upgradeOrConnect: false,
     parser: 
      HTTPParser {
        '0': [Function: parserOnHeaders],
        '1': [Function: parserOnHeadersComplete],
        '2': [Function: parserOnBody],
        '3': [Function: parserOnMessageComplete],
        '4': null,
        _headers: [],
        _url: '',
        _consumed: false,
        socket: [Socket],
        incoming: null,
        outgoing: [Circular],
        maxHeaderPairs: 2000,
        onIncoming: [Function: parserOnIncomingClient] },
     maxHeadersCount: null,
     [Symbol(isCorked)]: false,
     [Symbol(outHeadersKey)]: 
      { 'sec-websocket-version': [Array],
        'sec-websocket-key': [Array],
        connection: [Array],
        upgrade: [Array],
        'sec-websocket-extensions': [Array],
        host: [Array] } } }

And it stays forever that way. The only thing I see relevant is the _closeCode: 1006 field. Now I'm stuck. What can I do? Shouldn't rpc-websockets handle this error?

Just a reminder: sometimes I do get a successful connection, I just don't understand why the Client doesn't keep trying to reconnect in this case.

[mkozjak]

@lucaswxp Thank you for reporting the issue. Since you can reproduce this one, are you interested in authoring a PR to possibly fix this?

[lucaswxp]

@mkozjak I have no idea how to debug this further, any suggestion? I got as far as I was could by myself.

[shashikiran-pdi]

+1 I am facing the same issue

@lucaswxp Did you find any root cause or a work around to fix this issue?