"metachannel" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2010, Oswald Campesato, Kevin Nilson, Web 2.0 Fundamentals, page 572:",
          "text": "Bayeux contains three types of channels: metachannels, service, and normal channels. Metachannels are created by the Bayeux server. Metachannels give information about events, such as handshake errors, connection, disconnection, and reconnection.",
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          "text": "The cipher_ID and digest_ID are the OpenSSL cipher and digest types—Blowfish and SHA1 by default—that this node will use for the data channel and also to encrypt the metachannel.",
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        "(computing) A transmission channel used for event notifications rather than actual data."
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