diff --git a/doc/content/end-user-documentation/views.rst b/doc/content/end-user-documentation/views.rst
index 0c3a8f16..89f87b5d 100644
--- a/doc/content/end-user-documentation/views.rst
+++ b/doc/content/end-user-documentation/views.rst
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ Attributes
 .. table::
 
     ^Name        ^Description
+    |interactive |(Bool) Is true when the request came in over an websocket connection
     |method      |(String) Contains either 'GET' or 'POST'
     |GET         |(Dict) Contains the URL query
     |POST        |(Dict) Contains POST arguments. Empty in case of GET requests
diff --git a/lona/request.py b/lona/request.py
index 5affde37..4420fe2d 100644
--- a/lona/request.py
+++ b/lona/request.py
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ def __init__(self, view_runtime, connection):
 
         self.method = 'POST' if self.POST else 'GET'
 
+    @property
+    def interactive(self):
+        return self.connection.interactive
+
     @property
     def user(self):
         return getattr(self.connection, 'user', None)