Relays intermittently deauthed even though "always" is selected

[laanwj]

i'm not sure if this is a problem with the relays, or a bug in nostrudel, or a combination, resulting in this behavior, but some relays tend to get de-authed intermittently. They then have to be manually authed again by clicking the lock.

For example:

Still happens with: v0.41.0

cc: @SilberWitch

[SilberWitch]

Yup, same with me and some other npubs.

[hzrd149]

This is probably caused by a few things

1. noStrudel will try and close relay connections its no longer using ( even if you are authenticated ).
2. noStrudel waits for an auth-required: error message from the relay before it tries to authenticate, even if its set to always

So if the relay connection was closed in the background, then reopened. it wouldn't authenticate until the relay send the auth error

There are a few ways we could solve this

1. Don't close connections to authenticated relays
2. Proactively authenticate to relays that are set to always

[hzrd149]

Add both options to next version bbd19d7

[SilberWitch]

Ah, nice. Yes.