diff --git a/src/renderer/src/web/web-runtime-connection-heartbeat-unsendable-probe.test.ts b/src/renderer/src/web/web-runtime-connection-heartbeat-unsendable-probe.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c47b20190db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/renderer/src/web/web-runtime-connection-heartbeat-unsendable-probe.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest'
+import { WebRuntimeConnectionHeartbeat } from './web-runtime-connection-heartbeat'
+
+// A probe that cannot be written is the strongest evidence the link is gone. Gating the deadline on
+// a successful send disarms the only branch that can declare the socket dead, so a saturated or
+// half-open socket is never judged at all — the wedge fixed on the SSH transport in #17817.
+describe('WebRuntimeConnectionHeartbeat when the probe cannot be sent', () => {
+  it('still declares the socket dead instead of watching it forever', () => {
+    let now = 0
+    const socket = { readyState: 1, close: vi.fn() } as unknown as WebSocket
+    const handleDeadSocket = vi.fn()
+    const heartbeat = new WebRuntimeConnectionHeartbeat({
+      now: () => now,
+      isDocumentVisible: () => true,
+      isConnected: () => true,
+      getSocket: () => socket,
+      // The saturated / half-open case: the send never leaves.
+      sendProbe: () => false,
+      handleDeadSocket
+    })
+
+    heartbeat.lastInboundFrameAt = 0
+    heartbeat.lastHeartbeatTickAt = 0
+    for (const tickAt of [10_000, 20_000, 30_000, 40_000, 50_000]) {
+      now = tickAt
+      heartbeat.runTick()
+    }
+
+    expect(handleDeadSocket).toHaveBeenCalledWith(socket)
+  })
+})
diff --git a/src/renderer/src/web/web-runtime-connection-heartbeat.ts b/src/renderer/src/web/web-runtime-connection-heartbeat.ts
index 251d97945a6..177d7f91454 100644
--- a/src/renderer/src/web/web-runtime-connection-heartbeat.ts
+++ b/src/renderer/src/web/web-runtime-connection-heartbeat.ts
@@ -69,9 +69,13 @@ export class WebRuntimeConnectionHeartbeat {
       return
     }
     if (this.heartbeatProbeSentAt === null && now - this.lastInboundFrameAt >= HEARTBEAT_IDLE_MS) {
-      if (this.options.sendProbe()) {
-        this.heartbeatProbeSentAt = now
-      }
+      // Why the deadline is armed before the send and regardless of its result: a probe that could
+      // not be written is the strongest evidence the link is gone, not a reason to stop watching.
+      // Gating this on a successful send disarms the only branch above that can declare the socket
+      // dead, so a saturated or half-open socket would never be judged at all -- the same wedge
+      // fixed on the SSH transport in #17817. See also #17823.
+      this.heartbeatProbeSentAt = now
+      this.options.sendProbe()
     }
   }