[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Apparently this is an old idea with the new buzzword Comet.... > (http://ajaxian.com/archives/comet-a-new-approach-to-ajax-applications) > > Since web servers cannot just push updates/data to client browsers with HTML, > the poor client must often keep *polling* the server in web land. > This isn't scalable for obvious reasons. > > A clever solution is to replace polling with a single query that keeps sending > whitespace to keep it alive. Rather than building and tearing down HTTP > connections to server all the time (with polling), > we can just work around the browser's timeout values by keeping one connection > alive until server has data for it!!! > > This seems to solve a lot of problems of HTML and have lots of potential for > future dynamic AJAXy type web apps.
This is total crap. If you need a persistent connection then don't use HTTP. It's that simple. Use telnet or ssh. Why are you trying to invent something that poorly implements something else that already exists? Gus -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
