Add gun:ping/2,3 for user-initiated ping for HTTP/2 #343
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This feature allows a user to explicitly send a ping frame and receive a ping ack. The use case is to test the latency and health of existing long-lived API connections using some admin tool.
A request, such as OPTIONS or HEAD, can also be used for this purpose, but it may be handled differently by middleware.
This PR implements it only for HTTP/2, which is the use case we have. For other protocols, an error tuple is sent to the reply-to process.
This use case is mentioned in RFC 7540, section 6.7:
Section 8.1.4: