[issue40352] SocketHandler silently drops log messages on re-connect

[Vinay Sajip]

Vinay Sajip <vinay_sajip at yahoo.co.uk> added the comment:

> It is enough to reopen the socket and send the current message again.

A common reason for connection failure in SocketHandler is the other end going offline for some reason. The offline period can often be measured in seconds to hours, or even longer. The current strategy is to retry connection, but on the next logging call, and with an exponential backoff.

Otherwise, if the remote end goes down and you keep retrying to connect on the same call, the handler would keep trying to connect and failing, and this could slow things down.

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