From f389cd6ad5f7a9233544aba76355db52fd40a80d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: thomasv <thomasv@gitorious>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 16:04:00 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] ping server every 5 minutes to make sure the link is not down

---
 interface.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/interface.py b/interface.py
index fac60856..cc89c7a5 100644
--- a/interface.py
+++ b/interface.py
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ class TcpStratumInterface(Interface):
     def __init__(self, host, port):
         Interface.__init__(self, host, port)
         self.s = socket.socket( socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM )
-        self.s.settimeout(5)
+        self.s.settimeout(5*60)
         self.s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_KEEPALIVE, 1)
         try:
             self.s.connect(( self.host, self.port))
@@ -227,7 +227,9 @@ class TcpStratumInterface(Interface):
             out = ''
             while self.is_connected:
                 try: msg = self.s.recv(1024)
-                except socket.timeout: 
+                except socket.timeout:
+                    # ping the server with server.version, as a real ping does not exist yet
+                    self.send([('server.version', [ELECTRUM_VERSION])])
                     continue
                 out += msg
                 if msg == '':