John, I've not had experience with this but it does sound like some type of threading may help and CF8's or BD's CFTHREAD tags may do the trick. I know that comet is used in JavaScript client-side implementations
I use jQuery for client-side work and the jQuery Ajax/JS library does have a plugin to work with Comet. You can find that here: http://empireenterprises.com/_comet.html This jQuery plugin also does server polling: http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/JHeartbeat/ And here's an article explaining more about Comet: http://ajaxian.com/archives/comet-a-new-approach-to-ajax-applications HTH. Rey.. John Robinson wrote: > Hello! > > I've been asked to develop a chat application using CF and Flash. I > recently finished a front-end to a project with a proprietary backend > that was similar but I don't have access to it, and don't know what > server tech. they were using. Basically, the chat client would send > an http request to the server and the server would hold onto that > request until new messages were available (or the request timed > out... about 60 seconds) before it responded. At that time, I'd > simply make a new request, where the process would repeat itself. > They told me this process is referred to as "long polling" or > "comet". I searched a bit yesterday but couldn't find anything > related to CF. Can anyone confirm that this is possible in CF, and > perhaps post a code example? > > Thanks, > > John Robinson - Flash/Flex Developer at large > Blog: http://jrobinsonmedia.wordpress.com > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:280386 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
