Websocket.close() meaning of "close status: XXXXX"

[wkyle]

When I close a websocket object I get status codes printed to the console. They're raised as a result of a non-"STATUS_NORMAL" status:

recv_status = struct.unpack("!H", frame.data[0:2])[0]
if recv_status != STATUS_NORMAL:
    error("close status: " + repr(recv_status))

Is there a dictionary somewhere on what each code means?

[wkyle]

Or perhaps I can get a more verbose error message pointing me to the problem?

[shmal]

status codes are in the websocket/_abnf.py file (or you could lookup RFC 6455). Are you receiving a valid status code number or part of the body of the next message received?

This is the behavior that I am seeing and I think is a bug in the close implementation (_core.py).

close() sends an OPCODE_CLOSE to the other end of the connection and then immediately reads a new frame and expects it to also be an OPCODE_CLOSE. This is not guaranteed and could be any other valid message (in my case, I get OPCODE_TEXT or OPCODE_PING). Ping has no payload so the recv_status line you posted throws an exception that is caught a few lines later and the close continues (no error message).

If I get an OPCODE_TEXT, the recv_status line grabs the first 2 bytes of my text message and converts it to an invalid opcode (31496, etc), and then displays the error.