- iter_json
            - send_text
            - send_bytes
            - send_json
            - close

When a client disconnects, a `WebSocketDisconnect` exception is raised, you can catch it.

You can import it directly form `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import WebSocketDisconnect
```

::: fastapi.WebSocketDisconnect

## WebSockets - additional classes

* ✨ Update internal `AsyncExitStack` to fix context for dependencies with `yield`. PR [#4575](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/4575) by [@tiangolo](https://github.com/tiangolo).

Dependencies with `yield` can now catch `HTTPException` and custom exceptions. For example:

```Python
async def get_database():
    with Session() as session:
        try:
            yield session
        except HTTPException:

## Handling disconnections and multiple clients

When a WebSocket connection is closed, the `await websocket.receive_text()` will raise a `WebSocketDisconnect` exception, which you can then catch and handle like in this example.

=== "Python 3.9+"

    ```Python hl_lines="79-81"
    {!> ../../../docs_src/websockets/tutorial003_py39.py!}
    ```

=== "Python 3.8+"

    {!> ../../../docs_src/dependencies/tutorial008b.py!}
    ```

An alternative you could use to catch exceptions (and possibly also raise another `HTTPException`) is to create a [Custom Exception Handler](../handling-errors.md#install-custom-exception-handlers){.internal-link target=_blank}.

## Dependencies with `yield` and `except`

This way, if any part of Starlette's internal code, or a Starlette extension or plug-in, raises a Starlette `HTTPException`, your handler will be able to catch and handle it.

In this example, to be able to have both `HTTPException`s in the same code, Starlette's exceptions is renamed to `StarletteHTTPException`:

```Python