Sendjng of ping

[Notadumdum]

Hey i have a question.. does this library automatically send pings..
I am trying to create a socket.io connection to a server and i want to know if this kind of ping is sent automatically

[miguelgrinberg]

Are you asking about the client functionality in this library or the server?

Your screenshot shows the browser sending to the server, in case it isn't clear.

The "2" packets are ping packets, sent at regular intervals and automatically. This is an old version of the Socket.IO protocol, in current versions the server sends pings to clients.

The "42" packet is an application specific packet.

[Notadumdum]

Yes i am aware the browser sends 2 to the server.. i am trying to reproduce this in vscode... so since you said this is an old version of socket.io.. how will i make use of it.. in case you are a bit confused I asked a question on connecting some time back.. so is there any difference in connecting using the new version or the old version

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[Notadumdum]

I want to build a client with this library.. it is vscode i am using to write the code.that is why i mentioned it in the first place.... Also is the documentation different for each versions?
What is your advice?
Thanks in advance

[miguelgrinberg]

As I said above, try the latest 4.x version of this library for your client as that is probably the one that is compatible with the server that you are connecting to. Install the following versions:

pip install python-engineio==3.14.2
pip install python-socketio==4.6.1

The documentation and examples that correspond to this old version are here.

[Notadumdum]

Thank you brother.. is the documentation of the old version the same with the documentation of the new one.. acsue at the bottom it shows latest

[miguelgrinberg]

No. The documentation comes with the source: https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio/tree/v4.6.1/docs. Anything other than the latest version you need to build yourself.

[Notadumdum]

Thanks