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@@ -205,3 +205,96 @@ private fun NoteRow(handle: MutableStateFlow<TextNoteEvent>) {
 
 Notice how each how also subscribe for changes. This is important to receive
 updates from replaceable and addressable events.
+
+# Appendix A
+
+Quartz doesn't offer a Ktor websocket, but you can use this one as reference.
+
+```kotlin
+/**
+ * Ktor-based [WebSocket] for talking to a Nostr relay.
+ *
+ * Quartz exposes [WebsocketBuilder] as the only seam between its relay-pool
+ * and the underlying transport, so all this class has to do is open a Ktor
+ * websocket session, forward incoming text frames to [out], and let Quartz
+ * drive sends.
+ */
+class KtorWebSocket(
+    private val url: NormalizedRelayUrl,
+    private val httpClient: HttpClient,
+    private val out: WebSocketListener,
+) : WebSocket {
+    private val scope = CoroutineScope(Dispatchers.IO + SupervisorJob())
+    private var session: DefaultWebSocketSession? = null
+    private var readerJob: Job? = null
+
+    override fun needsReconnect(): Boolean = session == null
+
+    override fun connect() {
+        readerJob =
+            scope.launch {
+                try {
+                    val s = httpClient.webSocketSession(urlString = url.url)
+                    session = s
+                    out.onOpen(0, false)
+
+                    for (frame in s.incoming) {
+                        if (frame is Frame.Text) {
+                            out.onMessage(frame.readText())
+                        }
+                    }
+
+                    val reason = s.closeReason.await()
+                    out.onClosed(
+                        code =
+                            reason?.code?.toInt() ?: CloseReason.Codes.NORMAL.code
+                                .toInt(),
+                        reason = reason?.message ?: "",
+                    )
+                } catch (t: Throwable) {
+                    out.onFailure(t, null, null)
+                } finally {
+                    session = null
+                }
+            }
+    }
+
+    override fun disconnect() {
+        val s = session
+        session = null
+        readerJob?.cancel()
+        readerJob = null
+        if (s != null) {
+            runBlocking { s.close(CloseReason(CloseReason.Codes.NORMAL, "client disconnect")) }
+        }
+        scope.cancel()
+    }
+
+    override fun send(msg: String): Boolean {
+        val s = session ?: return false
+        scope.launch { s.send(msg) }
+        return true
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * The factory Quartz hands to [com.vitorpamplona.quartz.nip01Core.relay.client.NostrClient].
+     * One [HttpClient] is shared by every relay in the pool.
+     */
+    class Builder(
+        private val httpClient: HttpClient = defaultClient(),
+    ) : WebsocketBuilder {
+        override fun build(
+            url: NormalizedRelayUrl,
+            out: WebSocketListener,
+        ): WebSocket = KtorWebSocket(url, httpClient, out)
+
+        companion object {
+            fun defaultClient() =
+                HttpClient(CIO) {
+                    install(WebSockets)
+                }
+        }
+    }
+}
+```
+