Ping a stream once in a while. If the ping times out the stream will be destroyed.
npm install pingable
var pingable = require('pingable');
pingable(stream, {
interval: 15000, // how often should we ping it,
timeout: 5000 // whats the ping timeout?
}, function(cb) {
// do the ping somehow
stream.write('ping');
// when the ping is completed call the cb
stream.once('data', function() {
cb();
});
});
stream.on('close', function() {
// if the ping fails stream.destroy will be called
// which usually triggers a close
});
MIT
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Ping a stream once in while. If it times out destroy it
The npm package pingable receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, pingable popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that pingable demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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