Use Rack socket hijacking for long-running connections

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Rack's request/response model does not fit WebSockets or similar persistent connections. The Rack hijacking API lets you grab the underlying socket, hand it to a proxy running on a separate thread, return a dummy response to Rack, and go on serving the next request.

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Created in: Smuggling, hijacking and proxying remote console sockets ... 2026-04-17 16:18