re: #113 dog philosopher

hmm how about parity bits?

here’s the RFC for heartbeat.

One more try at the layman analogy, which in simple is that both abolitionist and I are right (just describing different parts of the elephant). Heartbeat is meant to ensure the secure connection remains open and valid on an unreliable connection.

If you want to read the ‘why this way’ you need to read the RFC and its referenced RFCs. And probably the discussions when the RFC was a proposed protocol. Most are linked in the RFC link already provided.