diff -ur cockpit-0.27/src/ws/cockpitwebservice.c cockpit-0.27-notimeout/src/ws/cockpitwebservice.c

--- cockpit-0.27/src/ws/cockpitwebservice.c	2014-10-10 13:39:03.000000000 +0200

+++ cockpit-0.27-notimeout/src/ws/cockpitwebservice.c	2015-03-25 11:45:07.772068925 +0100

@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@

   g_hash_table_remove (sessions->by_channel, channel);

   g_hash_table_remove (session->channels, channel);

-  if (g_hash_table_size (session->channels) == 0)

+  if (g_hash_table_size (session->channels) == 0 && !session->primary)

     {

       /*

        * Close sessions that are no longer in use after N seconds