Admin status widget jQuery module's WebSockets intermittently and silently stops reporting

[fish2000]

For a full description, see also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7054536/problems-when-storing-websocket-connection-handle-objects-using-jquery-data/7374974#7374974

You can see the errors in the JavaScript console -- the WebSocket object somehow becomes invalid under conditions not easily determined.

[fish2000]

NB -- wrapping native web sockets with socket.io seems like the way forward, in this arena.