Take control of your cookies: clear them often, while keeping the convenience

Nearly every website wants to place a cookie on your computer. But some websites you return to often, and some other websites you visit once and forget about them. If you don’t take control of your cookies, you can easily end up with thousands of them taking gigs of your disk space. And then there’s… Continue reading Take control of your cookies: clear them often, while keeping the convenience

Simulating Hard Websocket Disconnect in a Browser

I need to test ping pong detecting a connection loss. Unline a soft, programmatical disconnect (.close()), a hard disconnect means network connection loss and won’t notify the websocket server. Chrome’s built-in network throttle doesn’t affect the existing, already established websocket connections – even with the latest (Feb 2022) update on the issue. My setup is… Continue reading Simulating Hard Websocket Disconnect in a Browser