TCP keep-alives aren't reliably implemented. I've got reports that sometimes we struggle to keep connection to the network on mobile, eg, because we roam into an area with poor connectivity but not poor enough for the network stack to drop access entirely. Being able to quickly check if the connection is really there with some kind of bounded, app layer deadline is probably useful and besides, it's cheap.
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