Hi all im trying to track down an issue with a long running websocket connection using ktor client, i send one message at the start and then im just receiving messages, in the past i have seen that the connection can get dropped, but i only get an error message when i try and send something, does anyone know if there is a way to check the connection periodically without writing something to the stream?

I did not look up the spec, but it seems like a websocket server is responsible for enabling heartbeat monitoring. Ktor server has a

pingPeriod

parameter to that effect: https://ktor.io/docs/websocket.html#installing

thank you