title: Disabling Socket.io heartbeats (Node.js)
body: <p>The <a href="https://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO/wiki/Configuring-Socket.IO" rel="nofollow">socket.io documentation</a> mentions that heartbeats can be disabled like so:</p>
  
  <p><code>io.disable('heartbeats');</code></p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, while this seems to stop the hearbeats from being sent, the clients still disconnect when they are not sending hearbeats.</p>
  
  <p>The following does not function either:</p>
  
  <p><code>io.set('heartbeats', false);</code></p>
  
  <p>I have tried setting some intervals to 0, without success:</p>
  
  <pre><code>io.set('heartbeat timeout', 0);
  io.set('heartbeat interval', 0);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any suggestions on what might properly disable heartbeats?</p>