Implement .disconnect()

[rauchg]

It will

• close the connections
• send the server a special disconnection notice (volatile)

[mbrevoort]

Guillermo,

What's the status of this issue. I see that there is a disconnect now implemented by each transport. When I call it thought, it doesn't seem to express my intent to cease the socket.io "connection".

For example, when I call disconnect on a websocket connection in Chrome, it does disconnect but then reconnects and downgrades to xhr-polling. I assume it doesn't really that I initiated the disconnect, caught the disconnect event and then decided to downgrade. In Firefox I see the same behavior with the flashsocket but it degrades to xhr-multipart.

Is this within the scope of this issue?

[philtomson]

Does disconnect() remove all events related to the socket as well?

[3rd-Eden]

No, disconnect does not remove any events.

[philtomson]

...it would be nice if it did.

We're reconnecting later and ending up with duplicate events.