Send empty data periodically, to keeping SSH session alive
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area:ssh
enhancement
triaged
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 65.1k
- Forks
- 5.6k
- PR merge metrics
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Description
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Describe the solution you'd like?
To keep an SSH session alive, you can send periodic empty data. This helps maintain the connection and prevents it from timing out.
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
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Additional context
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How important is this feature to you?
5 (Can't work without it!)
Warp Internal (ignore) - linear-label:770f6576-d6c0-4e4f-a259-fc64b5156087
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating the SSH session handling in the Rust codebase and determine how periodic empty data should be sent without disrupting sessions. Done means an SSH connection remains alive through the requested periodic keepalive behavior, with coverage for the relevant session lifecycle.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- cli, networking
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100