A method for the client-side to be able to create a connection and "listen" on what the server-side has to say would be extremely useful to web applications.
At this time I'm forced to do periodical http requests to the server to see if there's any new data. If I keep doing a check every 1 second for each user, and the user base scales up, then I quickly end up with a huge amount of requests, not to mention that in many cases, 1 second is just not fast enough. So, I was wondering if Gears provides support for socket connections or any alternative method that allows the server-side to send messages to a "connected" client-side without the client-side having to specifically request the message, but only establish the listening connection?
