Ping

Use the Ping packet to establish a connection and negotiate security with the server.

BITS_POST remote-URL HTTP/1.1
BITS-Packet-Type: Ping

Headers

BITS_POST

BITS-specific verb that identifies this packet to the BITS server.

Replace remote-URL with the absolute or relative URI. Typically, replace remote-URL with the remote file name of the job.

BITS-Packet-Type

Identifies this request packet as a Ping packet.

Remarks

The Ping packet is optional. Instead of sending a Ping packet, you can use the Create-Session packet to establish a connection and negotiate security. However, it is more efficient to use the Ping packet for this purpose.

See also

Ack for Ping

Create-Session