On Tue, May 31, 2022, 4:44 PM Lee Doughty <l...@virginiacyberrange.org> wrote:
> 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? > This is also something that would be nice as a "per-device" or a per guacd config value to adjust (or a default value if not set). - Ralph >
