Thanks howesc! This is something I am totally not aware of, and it looks promising! Are you using it with web2py? If so, could you elaborate a bit more on how this thing can be integrated with web2py? Many thanks!
On Friday, May 4, 2012 10:45:43 AM UTC-4, howesc wrote: > > if you desire to run on google app engine you can use the channel API: > https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/channel/overview. > heck you might be able to import the JS side of it into your views and use > it not on the app engine, though i have not tried it. > > i am starting to use it (not for chat but for other real-time messaging) > and it seems to be working pretty well in test. > > On Wednesday, May 2, 2012 3:48:41 PM UTC-7, mrtn wrote: >> >> >> So I've done some research on developing a chat app with web2py. First, I >> took a look of: >> http://code.google.com/p/web2py/source/browse/gluon/contrib/comet_messaging.py, >> >> and then a related tutorial using it: http://vimeo.com/38972256 (not in >> english, so I might have missed a thing or two). What I can conclude from >> them is that we can make a chat application *using websockets*. However, >> since websockets is not supported by all the browsers except for Chrome (at >> least not by default for latest versions of other major browsers, and >> certainly not by their older versions), this solution has limited practical >> use. >> >> Thanks to questions previously asked in the group, I found this: >> http://greg.thehellings.com/2011/05/web2py-websockets-and-socket-io-part-iii-socket-io/, >> >> which attempts to use Tornadio (https://github.com/MrJoes/tornadio) with >> Socket.io to circumvent the problem above, so that if websockets is not >> available some other fall-back option is used instead. However, this method >> stops working for new versions (0.7+) of Socket.io, even with the newer >> Tornadio2 (https://github.com/MrJoes/tornadio2). In fact, the author of >> the original blog post above eventually decided to abandon Socket.io >> approach altogether after an effort to make things work: >> https://github.com/mrjoes/tornadio2/issues/17. >> >> So, does this mean that we are running out options for implementing a >> practical chat application (which is probably one of the most typical >> example applications made with different web frameworks these days) using >> web2py? Apart from these websockets and its remedy Socket.io, is there any >> other protocol/library we can use with web2py to make this happens? Would >> love to hear your suggestions! >> >
