From time to time there comes a need to disable individual nodes. At the moment I'm storing those nodes into separate flow and disable it which looks odd (but it works) Is there any plans to implement this functionality or is it not possible because of some restrictions? My use case is to simulat…

Either you create a custom node that does it by itself with a timeout (or button in editor). Yes, I don't see any other possibility.

Still you know core better than 99% of users. Maybe somebody from the core will provide insights.

What about a function node? The connection - at least in the case of a HTTP in node - is transported with the message, so it would be possible, in a function node, to close that connection. The HTTP out node uses the msg.res._res to close the original connection made when the client connects to the…

[image] KarolisL: At the moment I'm storing those nodes into separate flow and disable it which looks odd (but it works) Don't forget that you can use the library feature of the export/import dialog for this.

To really drop/close the connection, I see only two options: disable the config node only manually at this time (edit/deploy) add support for control messages to the TCP core nodes (like mqtt and some other nodes have implemented it)

Perhaps msg.reset is what you want

In itself, you need to trigger the closing of your TCP node. So you can create a test code in one of your node that reacts to RED.httpAdmin (for example) and calls yourTcpNode.close(). I have never tried and the node will not be usable after that without a reboot.

As Matthias and me said there are only two possibilities at the moment: deployment to disable the node custom TCP node with button to trigger a close event

[image] KarolisL: Because this one is for dynamic node disable Won't bother, I doubt very much that a) that is the solution to your problem b) that anyone else would need this feature (see a)).

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Maybe I should create a separate topic? Because this one is for dynamic node disable

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