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TElSSLClient.SendKeepAlive

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Forces SSL client to send a heartbeat request to the server.

Declaration

[C#]
    bool SendKeepAlive();

[VB.NET]
    Function SendKeepAlive() As Boolean

[Pascal]
    function SendKeepAlive : boolean;

[C++]
    bool SendKeepAlive();

[PHP]
    bool SendKeepAlive()

[Java]
    boolean sendKeepAlive();

Return value

    This method returns False only if the heartbeat extension is not supported on either client, or server side.

Description

    Call this method to send a heartbeat request to the server. A heartbeat TLS extension is similar to the TCP keep-alive feature, but is more powerful. Heartbeat is supported only for TLS and DTLS, but not for SSL2 and SSL3.

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