Django as a websocket client

Question

I know that Django Channels can be used to make websocket server, not client. So I used websockets to relay websocket incoming message to my Django like this:

async def relay():
    source_server = 'ws://source.example/ws/message'  # This is an external server
    target_server = 'ws://target.example/ws/message'  # This is my Django server
    async for target in websockets.connect(target_server):
        try: 
            async for source in websockets.connect(source_server):
                try:    
                    while True:
                        try:
                            message = await source.recv()
                            await target.send()
                            # log message
                        except websockets.ConnectionClosed as e:
                            # lost source server or target server or both
                            raise(e) 
                        except Exception as e:
                            # did not lose servers
                            continue
                except websockets.ConnectionClosed as e:
                    # lost source server or target server or both
                    if target.close_code is not None:
                        # lost target server and need to start from the outer for loop
                        # (to get a new target websocket connection)
                        source.disconnect()       
                        raise(e)
                    # lost source server and will continue the inner for loop 
                    # (to get a new source websocket connection)
                    continue
               except Exception as e:
                    # did not lose any server and will continue the inner for loop 
                    # (to get a new source websocket connection)
                    continue
        except websockets.ConnectionClosed as e:
            # lost target server and will continue the outer for loop
            # (to get a new target websocket connection)
            continue
        except Exception as e:
            # did not lose any server and will start the outer for loop   
            # (to get a new target websocket connection)
            continue 

asyncio.run(relay())

Understandably, this is not the most efficient code-up. But this is what I can think of. I run this code as a Docker container (let's call it relay container) along side with my Django Docker containers (with the same Docker image as Django of course).

Here's my questions:

1. Is there a way to make Django a websocket client? (I want to save one container for the relay). For your information, I run Django container (using Daphne), two Celery (one for beat and one for worker) containers.
2. If I bring down the relay container, it takes long time (five to ten seconds) to be down. The exit code is Out Of Memory. What causes the problem? How can I shutdown the container gracefully?

Thanks.