How to prevent Phoenix from retrying to connect to channel when auth fails?

[codeanpeace]

Here’s a related older post that discusses some possible solutions.

Channels. What strategy when connection is denied

There are two different scenario’s I’m trying to handle with the Phoenix JS Websocket client - both produce the same result but I need to handle them both differently. 1. The application is not accessible/responding. 2. Denying a user connection due to failing authentication. I am authenticating and then denying connection as per the comments for UserSocket.connect/2: # To deny connection, return `:error`. 1 socket.onError() fires and the socket tries to reconnect again. This is the expect…