[flexcoders] Push verse Poll in Flash Player

[Alexander Farber]

An idea: you could open a socket connection
(because of corporate proxies best would be the port 80)
and try to read an integer:

private function handleTcpData(event:Event):void {
 while(_socket.bytesAvailable) {
 try{
   var i:int = _socket.readInt();
   fetchHttpData(i);
  }catch(e:Error){
    // incomplete integer, will be read by another handleTcpData call
    return;
  }
 }
}

and whenever an integer arrives from your backend,
your client could read the whole data over HTTP.

Regards
Alex