The heartbeat of SRS is a timer that requests an HTTP URL. We can use
this heartbeat to report the necessary information for registering the
backend server with the proxy server.
```text
SRS(backend) --heartbeat---> Proxy server
```
A proxy server is a specialized load balancer for media servers. It
operates at the application level rather than the TCP level. For more
information about the proxy server, see issue #4158.
Note that we will merge this PR into SRS 5.0+, allowing the use of SRS
5.0+ as the backend server, not limited to SRS 7.0. However, the proxy
server is introduced in SRS 7.0.
It's also possible to implement a registration service, allowing you to
use other media servers as backend servers. For example, if you gather
information about an nginx-rtmp server and register it with the proxy
server, the proxy will forward RTMP streams to nginx-rtmp. The backend
server is not limited to SRS.
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Co-authored-by: Jacob Su <suzp1984@gmail.com>
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