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KEEPALIVE

Channel: 5

  • it is safe to send keepalive packets.
  • it is safe to never send keepalive packets.
  • any keepalive packet is a flap channel 5 packet with an empty flapdata field.
  • keepalive packets are sent by official icq clients, when the checkbox "keep the connection alive" is turned on.
  • it is safe to send keepalive packets with an interval of 30 or more seconds between keepalive packets. It is unknown if they can be sent more frequently.

Parameters

No parameters.

Examples

2a 05 00 15 00 00

2a //byte, constant, flap magic
05 //byte, constant, flap channel
00 15 //word, variable, flap sequence number
00 00 //word, constant, flap data length


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