Re: [Quickfix-developers] monitor the FIX connection failure programmatically?

[Caleb E. <cal...@gm...>]

On 11/4/05, Francis Gingras <fr...@at...> wrote:
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> Isn't that what the heartbeat is for?
>

Well, it can be useful for an Application to be notified of the status of a
connection when it comes up/goes down. For example, you might want to alert
users, change the routing behavior of a trading engine, etc. Heartbeats are
just a protocol level detail.


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Caleb Epstein
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