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Socket.io maintains client side connection when client refreshes or opens a new page

Is there a way to keep the same socket.io connection on the client side, if the user opens a new page or refreshes the page, maybe keep the socket in the session or is it not possible?

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It's impossible. You cannot keep the same socket.io or webSocket connection on page change or refresh. The browser just doesn't. When a new page is loaded or the current page is refreshed, all resources from the previous page are closed and released by the browser, including socket.io/webSocket connections.



So, your server should be waiting for a new socket.io connection from the recently loaded page. If you are using cookies or a server side session object, you can tell on the server when a connection comes from the client you previously saw, and then the server can act accordingly to understand that it is just a previous client reconnecting on a new page ...

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