Alex Horovitz wrote: > Robert asks: > > > Is it possible to trigger a server push without a java client, i.e. can I > > push a response to the user without getting a request before? > > The answer is no if you are using HTTP as your transport protocol. HTTP is > a stateless protocol so the server has no way of identifying which client > to push what information to.
But then there's always what Netscape introduced as "HTTP based server push" (using the MIME type multipart/mixed), as described in http://home.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/pushpull.html.
We've done quite a lot of dynamic pages using server push. I do remember, though, that in the past we did have problems with the Apache server and server push (old versions of Apache did not send out a partial HTTP response, I don't know how new versions behave).
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Piers Uso Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ilink Kommunikationssysteme GmbH
