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Small package to connect to and then send ping message to a websocket endpoint. Used for a quick test of ws servers.
pip install websocket-ping
python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements_ws_ping.txt
-w flag is for the websocket endpoint -d is the duration to test if the connection is maintained (in seconds)
python -m ping_ws.ping_ws -w wss://host/ws/ping/ -d [int]
# Failure to connect - server rejecting connection
(.venv) $ python -m ping_ws.ping_ws -w wss://host/ws/ping/
Connection to wss unsuccessful: server rejected WebSocket connection: HTTP 502
# Success on connection
(.venv) $ python -m ping_ws.ping_ws -w ws://localhost:8000/ws/ping/
Successfully connected to ws://localhost:8000/ws/ping/, response to ping: pong
Maintained connection to ws://localhost:8000/ws/ping/, response to ping: pong
Success!
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Small package to connect to and then send ping message to a websocket endpoint. Used for a quick test of ws servers.
We found that websocket-ping demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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