I think he's talking about HTTP/1.1 persistent connections with multiple
parts, which is about as portable as you get. I don't think the client
can send any more data to the server after the initial request though.
My understanding of this method is that it uses something like multipart
MIME to send the data.
-Rob
Ryan Gahl wrote:
If you're thinking about going down that route, I'd say using a Java
applet would be more useful (and slightly more portable). I say more
useful because you'd then also have access to the rest of the JRE
libraries (threading, etc..). Scripting the DOM from an applet (and vice
versa) is quite easy.
But, if you're talking about holding an open socket connection, I would
think there are some security hurdles with that (although not sure to
what extent).
In a soon-to-be-implemented version of my framework, I'm going to make
an attempt at using an applet to expose true threading services to an
AJAX application (for things like garbage collection, etc..). The
setTimeout and setInterval functions are nice, but just don't cut it
when you really want a new thread :-). Perhaps comet will come into
play, but I just don't see it being all that necessary yet.
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Subject: Re: [Rails-spinoffs] Comet support?
You could use a small flash object on the page to do the communication
to a socket server.
Not sure about how easy it is to pass stuff between flash and javascript
thought.
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Roberto Saccon wrote:
all I know is that there is a rails project
<http://rubyforge.org/projects/rtrails/> which implements something
Comet-like (with an additional server for the persistent connections).
What I have read somewhere is that Campfire does polling, but not sure
about that.
On 3/9/06, *Jim Geurts* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Just out of curiosity, is there a plan to support Comet (name
coined
by the dojo guys) w/ prototype? Comet represents persisting an
http
connection for low latency data operations. It also represents a
nice alternative to polling.
Jim
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