In my fun MQTT broker project, part of the MQTT spec is to force a disconnection to a connected client from my broker under certain circumstances. I don't think it looks possible to do that with the TCP nodes but just asking in case it is

Will this PR take account of the sesssion id property and only reset that connection?

This is the request node - so it is connecting out to only one place - so yes.

@dceejay This is interesting. If using the same server with different ports you can open up two (or maybe more) connections at a time. Is this meant to be or is this just coincidence?

Would be good to have one of those options: reset/drop all previous connections reset/drop a defined connection (when sending the desired port) I think, I would prefer the first option.

I wonder if its cleaner, to set reset to an id? and pass this id on the output - so one can 'store' the ids - that they can then disconnect from so to speak? (I'm just thinking out aloud) EDIT But then again - it only supports one active connection, if I am not mistaken

Looking at it some more.. it stores connections by a key of host:port so the sender already knows that info... so... we could... if msg.reset set and no msg.host and/or msg.port set then close all. if msg.reset and msg.host and msg.port then close that specific connection. thoughts ? EDIT: - th…

<Can of worms open> Sorry - I got dibs on brain activity currently reset:'last' /* Last Connected */ reset:'all' /* All connection */ Examples: /* Clears all - no new */ reset:'all' /* Clears last - as well as creating a new one */ reset:'last', port:4050, host:'x.x.x.x' Both off these can in…

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dceejay 3 November 2023 10:26 14

true. need to check. I suspect in that case it will reset the last connection.

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