On 8/21/05, Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joe Gregorio wrote: > > Why not POST the Atom Entry, ala the Atom Publishing Protocol? > This would be an excellent idea if what we were talking about was a > low volume site. However, a site like LiveJournal generates hundreds of > updates per minute. Right now, on a Sunday evening, they are updating at the > rate of 349 entries per minute. During peak periods, they generate much more > traffic. Generating 349 POST messages per minute to perhaps 10 or 15 > different services means that they would be pumping out thousands of these > things per minute. It just isn't reasonable. > Using an open TCP/IP socket to carry a stream of Atom Entries > results in much greater efficiencies with much reduced bandwidth and > processing requirements.
Why can't you keep that socket open, that is the default behavior for HTTP 1.1. -joe -- Joe Gregorio http://bitworking.org
