Hello Guacamole Community, I tried asking this a few weeks ago, but it looks like there was not a lot of traction on this idea.. but I wanted to try one more time before I gave up on it.
I think it would be a great feature to stop auto-reconnect attempts that are simply not connecting after several dozen attempts. I've seen in our logs that some users hit the "Reconnect" button or otherwise get into a reconnect loop, then leave the tab open for hours *or days*. This results in our guacamole server getting a ping every minute or so from a user trying to connect to a VM that is not available, and they just leave it retrying over and over again. It would be nice to at least require user interaction to resume the connection attempts... So users have to return to the tab every N attempts to restart the countdown, instead of the current never-ending loop... I'm not suggesting any value for N... because any reasonable value would be nice over infinite. My record was somewhere in the ballpark of 7,000 attempts (5 days) before the user was kind enough to close the tab and stop poking our Guacamole server. Is this something that can make it into an upcoming Guacamole release? -Lee
