Subscribing to socket.on('disconnect') prevents socket from reconnecting

[martypdx]

Without socket.on('disconnect') client sockets will reconnect if server goes down and then comes back up.

If I add socket.on('disconnect', function(){...}) then clients will not reconnect if server goes down and then comes back up.

Using https on Mac both Chrome 36.0.1985.125 and Safari Version 7.0.5 (9537.77.4)

[peteruithoven]

Where do you add this listener? On the server or client?

[martypdx]

@peteruithoven On client.

Bit more to add to this. I was using a "scrapped" (see #721) 1.0.4 socket.io client file. I changed to getting the file from the server, which is now at 1.0.6, and the socket won't reconnect at all. Though I'm basing that on socket.on('connect',...) event. Now I'm starting to doubt that the socket ever disconnected... (see #739)

Basically, my use case is that there are pause and resume events. Calling socket.disconnect() on pause and socket.connect() on resume in order to stop and restart receipt of messages.

[peteruithoven]

I think you (also) experiencing the following issue:
#732
#730
#733
(as am I btw)

On how you get the socket.io-client.js you might find the following post interesting:
http://www.zachstronaut.com/posts/2011/08/17/node-socket-io-curious.html

[rase-]

@martypdx could you see if current master fixes the issue for you after merging in #767?

[nkzawa]

I think the issue was fixed on v1.2.0. Feel free to reopen if you had the problem again.