Re: [twsocket] Implementing Push Notifications to Custom Clients

2013-08-09 Thread Mohit Sindhwani
Thanks Angus! On 9/8/2013 9:21 PM, Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: *snip* BTW, there are several client/server samples, but start with OverbyteIcsTcpSrv and OverbyteIcsCliDemo, or use my 'IP Log Streaming Component' from: http://www.magsys.co.uk/delphi/magics.asp which should al

Re: [twsocket] Implementing Push Notifications to Custom Clients

2013-08-09 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
> Would "keep TCP/IP connections open" be the same as persistent > connections? Yes, although TCP/IP itself does not have a mechanism to confirm a connection is still open, except possible keep alive packets. Normally you only find out a connection has disconnected when trying to send something,

Re: [twsocket] Implementing Push Notifications to Custom Clients

2013-08-09 Thread Mohit Sindhwani
Hi Angus, Thank you for the quick response. On 9/8/2013 6:36 PM, Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: To an extent, this depends on how many clients are connected, since servers have limits. If low, you can keep TCP/IP connections open and just design your own protocol to send packets

Re: [twsocket] Implementing Push Notifications to Custom Clients

2013-08-09 Thread Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd
> We want to implement something like push notifications to custom > applications from our backend server to custom clients. To an extent, this depends on how many clients are connected, since servers have limits. If low, you can keep TCP/IP connections open and just design your own protocol

[twsocket] Implementing Push Notifications to Custom Clients

2013-08-09 Thread Mohit Sindhwani
Hi Guys, We want to implement something like push notifications to custom applications from our backend server to custom clients. Initially, the idea is that when processing is complete, the system will push a number (or something similar) to connected clients. Then, in response to that, th