On Wed Feb 15 22:51:37 2012, Adrien de Croy wrote:
long polling is a hideous hack. Proxies hate it.
It's basically designing a system to provide a TCP over multiple
HTTP over TCP connections. Bloat to the extreme.
I understand the reasons why it exist, due to the model of HTTP,
but building more things on top of it heading in the wrong
direction IMO.
There are two options if you want to live in the web world - BOSH or
WebSockets.
WebSocket support is *far* from universal, and BOSH works - and works
very well with proxies, despite whatever personal feelings they may
have.
Dave.
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