New option to cap the max wait between reconnection attempts. Still default to 10s. (setMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries) (#108)

docs/CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
+
+## [5.0.9] - 2019-08-30
+
+New option to cap the max wait between reconnection attempts. Still default to 10s. (setMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries).
+
+```
+ws connect --max_wait 5000 ws://example.com # will only wait 5 seconds max between reconnection attempts
+```
+
+## [5.0.7] - 2019-08-23
+- WebSocket: add new option to pass in extra HTTP headers when connecting.
+- `ws connect` add new option (-H, works like [curl](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/356705/how-to-send-a-header-using-a-http-request-through-a-curl-call)) to pass in extra HTTP headers when connecting 
+
+If you run against `ws echo_server` you will see the headers being received printed in the terminal.
+```
+ws connect -H "foo: bar" -H "baz: buz" ws://127.0.0.1:8008
+```
+
+- CobraConnection: sets a unique id field for all messages sent to [cobra](https://github.com/machinezone/cobra).
+- CobraConnection: sets a counter as a field for each event published.
+
+## [5.0.6] - 2019-08-22
+- Windows: silly compile error (poll should be in the global namespace)
+
+## [5.0.5] - 2019-08-22
+- Windows: use select instead of WSAPoll, through a poll wrapper
+
+## [5.0.4] - 2019-08-20
+- Windows build fixes (there was a problem with the use of ::poll that has a different name on Windows (WSAPoll))
+
+## [5.0.3] - 2019-08-14
+- CobraMetricThreadedPublisher _enable flag is an atomic, and CobraMetricsPublisher is enabled by default
+
+## [5.0.2] - 2019-08-01
+- ws cobra_subscribe has a new -q (quiet) option
+- ws cobra_subscribe knows to and display msg stats (count and # of messages received per second)
+- ws cobra_subscribe, cobra_to_statsd and cobra_to_sentry commands have a new option, --filter to restrict the events they want to receive
+
+## [5.0.1] - 2019-07-25
+- ws connect command has a new option to send in binary mode (still default to text)
+- ws connect command has readline history thanks to libnoise-cpp. Now ws connect one can use using arrows to lookup previous sent messages and edit them
+
+## [5.0.0] - 2019-06-23
+### Changed
+- New HTTP server / still very early. ws gained a new command, httpd can run a simple webserver serving local files.
+- IXDNSLookup. Uses weak pointer + smart_ptr + shared_from_this instead of static sets + mutex to handle object going away before dns lookup has resolved
+- cobra_to_sentry / backtraces are reversed and line number is not extracted correctly
+- mbedtls and zlib are searched with find_package, and we use the vendored version if nothing is found
+- travis CI uses g++ on Linux
+
+## [4.0.0] - 2019-06-09
+### Changed
+- WebSocket::send() sends message in TEXT mode by default
+- WebSocketMessage sets a new binary field, which tells whether the received incoming message is binary or text
+- WebSocket::send takes a third arg, binary which default to true (can be text too)
+- WebSocket callback only take one object, a const ix::WebSocketMessagePtr& msg
+- Add explicit WebSocket::sendBinary method
+- New headers + WebSocketMessage class to hold message data, still not used across the board
+- Add test/compatibility folder with small servers and clients written in different languages and different libraries to test compatibility.
+- ws echo_server has a -g option to print a greeting message on connect
+- IXSocketMbedTLS: better error handling in close and connect
+
+## [3.1.2] - 2019-06-06
+### Added
+- ws connect has a -x option to disable per message deflate
+- Add WebSocket::disablePerMessageDeflate() option.
+
+## [3.0.0] - 2019-06-xx
+### Changed
+- TLS, aka SSL works on Windows (websocket and http clients)
+- ws command line tool build on Windows
+- Async API for HttpClient
+- HttpClient API changed to use shared_ptr for response and request

docs/usage.md

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 webSocket.setExtraHeaders(headers);
 ```
 
+### Automatic reconnection
+
+Automatic reconnection kicks in when the connection is disconnected without the user consent. This feature is on by default and can be turned off.
+
+```
+webSocket.enableAutomaticReconnection();  // turn on
+webSocket.disableAutomaticReconnection(); // turn off
+bool enabled = webSocket.isAutomaticReconnectionEnabled(); // query state
+```
+
+The technique to calculate wait time is called [exponential
+backoff](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/api-retries.html). Here
+are the default waiting times between attempts (from connecting with `ws connect ws://foo.com`)
+
+```
+> Connection error: Got bad status connecting to foo.com, status: 301, HTTP Status line: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
+
+#retries: 1
+Wait time(ms): 100
+#retries: 2
+Wait time(ms): 200
+#retries: 3
+Wait time(ms): 400
+#retries: 4
+Wait time(ms): 800
+#retries: 5
+Wait time(ms): 1600
+#retries: 6
+Wait time(ms): 3200
+#retries: 7
+Wait time(ms): 6400
+#retries: 8
+Wait time(ms): 10000
+```
+
+The waiting time is capped by default at 10s between 2 attempts, but that value can be changed and queried.
+
+```
+webSocket.setMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries(5 * 1000); // 5000ms = 5s 
+uint32_t m = webSocket.getMaxWaitBetweenReconnectionRetries();
+```
+
 ## WebSocket server API
 
 ```