diff --git a/jetty-websocket/pom.xml b/jetty-websocket/pom.xml
index 1bc5214b513..cfb4b91e581 100644
--- a/jetty-websocket/pom.xml
+++ b/jetty-websocket/pom.xml
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@
             <artifactId>jetty-test-helper</artifactId>
             <scope>test</scope>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.eclipse.jetty</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jetty-servlet</artifactId>
+            <version>${project.version}</version>
+            <scope>test</scope>
+        </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
     <build>
diff --git a/jetty-websocket/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/WebSocketCommTest.java b/jetty-websocket/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/WebSocketCommTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..88f311d6527
--- /dev/null
+++ b/jetty-websocket/src/test/java/org/eclipse/jetty/websocket/WebSocketCommTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,217 @@
+package org.eclipse.jetty.websocket;
+
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.*;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URI;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import javax.servlet.ServletException;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+
+import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Connector;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletContextHandler;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder;
+import org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.StdErrLog;
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+/**
+ * WebSocketCommTest - to test reported undelivered messages in bug <a
+ * href="https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-1463">JETTY-1463</a>
+ */
+public class WebSocketCommTest
+{
+    @SuppressWarnings("serial")
+    private static class WebSocketCaptureServlet extends WebSocketServlet
+    {
+        public List<CaptureSocket> captures = new ArrayList<CaptureSocket>();;
+
+        @Override
+        protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException
+        {
+            resp.sendError(404);
+        }
+
+        public WebSocket doWebSocketConnect(HttpServletRequest request, String protocol)
+        {
+            CaptureSocket capture = new CaptureSocket();
+            captures.add(capture);
+            return capture;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static class CaptureSocket implements WebSocket, WebSocket.OnTextMessage
+    {
+        private Connection conn;
+        public List<String> messages;
+
+        public CaptureSocket()
+        {
+            messages = new ArrayList<String>();
+        }
+
+        public boolean isConnected()
+        {
+            if (conn == null)
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
+            return conn.isOpen();
+        }
+
+        public void onMessage(String data)
+        {
+            System.out.printf("Received Message \"%s\" [size %d]%n", data, data.length());
+            messages.add(data);
+        }
+
+        public void onOpen(Connection connection)
+        {
+            this.conn = connection;
+        }
+
+        public void onClose(int closeCode, String message)
+        {
+            this.conn = null;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static class MessageSender implements WebSocket
+    {
+        private Connection conn;
+        private CountDownLatch connectLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);
+
+        public void onOpen(Connection connection)
+        {
+            this.conn = connection;
+            connectLatch.countDown();
+        }
+
+        public void onClose(int closeCode, String message)
+        {
+            this.conn = null;
+        }
+
+        public boolean isConnected()
+        {
+            if (this.conn == null)
+            {
+                return false;
+            }
+            return this.conn.isOpen();
+        }
+
+        public void sendMessage(String format, Object... args) throws IOException
+        {
+            this.conn.sendMessage(String.format(format,args));
+        }
+
+        public void awaitConnect() throws InterruptedException
+        {
+            connectLatch.await(1,TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+        }
+
+        public void close()
+        {
+            if (this.conn == null)
+            {
+                return;
+            }
+            this.conn.close();
+        }
+    }
+
+    private Server server;
+    private WebSocketCaptureServlet servlet;
+    private URI serverUri;
+
+    @BeforeClass
+    public static void initLogging()
+    {
+        // Configure Logging
+        System.setProperty("org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.class",StdErrLog.class.getName());
+        System.setProperty("org.eclipse.jetty.LEVEL","DEBUG");
+    }
+
+    @Before
+    public void startServer() throws Exception
+    {
+        // Configure Server
+        server = new Server(0);
+
+        ServletContextHandler context = new ServletContextHandler();
+        context.setContextPath("/");
+        server.setHandler(context);
+
+        // Serve capture servlet
+        servlet = new WebSocketCaptureServlet();
+        context.addServlet(new ServletHolder(servlet),"/");
+
+        // Start Server
+        server.start();
+
+        Connector conn = server.getConnectors()[0];
+        String host = conn.getHost();
+        if (host == null)
+        {
+            host = "localhost";
+        }
+        int port = conn.getLocalPort();
+        serverUri = new URI(String.format("ws://%s:%d/",host,port));
+        System.out.printf("Server URI: %s%n",serverUri);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSendTextMessages() throws Exception
+    {
+        WebSocketClientFactory clientFactory = new WebSocketClientFactory();
+        clientFactory.start();
+
+        WebSocketClient wsc = clientFactory.newWebSocketClient();
+        MessageSender sender = new MessageSender();
+        wsc.open(serverUri,sender);
+
+        try
+        {
+            sender.awaitConnect();
+
+            // Send 5 short messages
+            for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
+            {
+                System.out.printf("Sending msg-%d%n",i);
+                sender.sendMessage("msg-%d",i);
+            }
+
+            // Servlet should show only 1 connection.
+            Assert.assertThat("Servlet.captureSockets.size",servlet.captures.size(),is(1));
+
+            CaptureSocket socket = servlet.captures.get(0);
+            Assert.assertThat("CaptureSocket",socket,notNullValue());
+            Assert.assertThat("CaptureSocket.isConnected", socket.isConnected(), is(true));
+
+            // Give servlet 500 millisecond to process messages
+            threadSleep(500,TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
+            // Should have captured 5 messages.
+            Assert.assertThat("CaptureSocket.messages.size",socket.messages.size(),is(5));
+        }
+        finally
+        {
+            System.out.println("Closing client socket");
+            sender.close();
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static void threadSleep(int dur, TimeUnit unit) throws InterruptedException
+    {
+        long ms = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert(dur,unit);
+        Thread.sleep(ms);
+    }
+}