Espruino Wifi Socket recovery

Hi,

Using an Espruino Wifi with the 'EspruinoWifi' module running Firmware 1.99.

The question may expand into other issues but directly my question is around an un-recoverable socket disconnection. I am using the 'Net' module and connecting to a simple Tcp Server. All works well until the socket appears to be closed (either from native code or the module itself but NOT from my code)

This might be a transient socket disconnection for whatever reason but the main problem is that I can't reconnect. Subscribing to the socket.on('close') event works and I have tried a simple reconnect via a timeout function. This function runs and the callback passes an empty 'err' object and a complete socket as it does first time round but no data is received and the 'close' event is triggered again instantly.

My code looks like this

function connect() {
  console.log("Attempting connection");
  client.connect(MY_OPTIONS, function(socket, err) {
    if (err) {
      console.log("Its all gone bad and here's why: "+err);
      return;
    }
    console.log("Connected to My Server ");

    //my socket.on('data', .... function lives here

    socket.on('close', function() {
      console.log("socket closed");
      setTimeout(function() {
        connect();
      }, 5000);
    });
  });
}

In summary, it works great until the socket closed event gets called. The 2nd connect runs with no error and return a socket object but no data is received and the close event fires immediately.

Any thoughts on how to recover from the socket disconnection or maybe I can do something to prevent it. Thanks