Reconnect not working

Hi! I added a listener for the ‘close’ event in order to handle disconnections. I’m seeing the message in the logs but the bot is offline now. What I’m doing wrong? Thanks!

// handle disconnections
bot.on('close', function(data){
    console.log("Connection closed... Reconnecting.")
    bot.login();
});

[WoLfulus]

Shouldn’t this be a part of the library itself?

var bot = new Slackbot({});

bot.on('message', function(ev) {
    if (ev.type == 'reconnect_url') {
        bot.wsUrl = ev.url;
        return;
    }
    // ... 
});

bot.on('close', function() {
    bot.connect();
});

[Clotonervo]

I don’t know if this is still relevant, but I fixed this problem by adding to the source code a reconnect method. I was told by Slack Help Center that this is normal, and that simply what you need to do is call a method on the api to tell Slack that your app is still running. The reconnect method simply calls the method on the real time messaging api (rtm.connect) which to my understanding sends over a new url to set as your web socket. My pull request didn’t go through due to some weird error, and it doesn’t seem like anyone is still keeping tabs on this repository. For more clarification take a look at the slack-api documentation here: https://api.slack.com/methods/rtm.connect