!!! tip
    Notice that the query `token` will be handled by a dependency.

With that you can connect the WebSocket and then send and receive messages:

<img src="/img/tutorial/websockets/image05.png">

## 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.

You can import it directly form `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi import WebSocketDisconnect
```

::: fastapi.WebSocketDisconnect

## WebSockets - additional classes

Additional classes for handling WebSockets.

Provided directly by Starlette, but you can import it from `fastapi`:

```python
from fastapi.websockets import WebSocketDisconnect, WebSocketState
```

::: fastapi.websockets.WebSocketDisconnect