diff --git a/piker/data/_web_bs.py b/piker/data/_web_bs.py
index e9d2deeb..4d886fbc 100644
--- a/piker/data/_web_bs.py
+++ b/piker/data/_web_bs.py
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ async def open_autorecon_ws(
 
 '''
 JSONRPC response-request style machinery for transparent multiplexing
-of msgs over a NoBsWs.
+of msgs over a `NoBsWs`.
 
 '''
 
@@ -377,6 +377,16 @@ async def open_jsonrpc_session(
     url: str,
     start_id: int = 0,
     response_type: type = JSONRPCResult,
+    msg_recv_timeout: float = float('inf'),
+    # ^NOTE, since only `deribit` is using this jsonrpc stuff atm
+    # and options mkts are generally "slow moving"..
+    #
+    # FURTHER if we break the underlying ws connection then since we
+    # don't pass a `fixture` to the task that manages `NoBsWs`, i.e.
+    # `_reconnect_forever()`, the jsonrpc "transport pipe" get's
+    # broken and never restored with wtv init sequence is required to
+    # re-establish a working req-resp session.
+
 ) -> Callable[[str, dict], dict]:
     '''
     Init a json-RPC-over-websocket connection to the provided `url`.
@@ -393,12 +403,18 @@ async def open_jsonrpc_session(
 
     async with (
         trio.open_nursery() as tn,
-        open_autorecon_ws(url) as ws
+        open_autorecon_ws(
+            url=url,
+            msg_recv_timeout=msg_recv_timeout,
+        ) as ws
     ):
         rpc_id: Iterable[int] = count(start_id)
         rpc_results: dict[int, dict] = {}
 
-        async def json_rpc(method: str, params: dict) -> dict:
+        async def json_rpc(
+            method: str,
+            params: dict,
+        ) -> dict:
             '''
             perform a json rpc call and wait for the result, raise exception in
             case of error field present on response