i think that this technique works with netscape but not with IE. on IE you have to
set-up channels.
Ime Smits wrote:
> | Plain old meta refreshes. Usually every 5 or 10 seconds or so. Perhaps
> | configurable on a user and/or server basis.
>
> You could make it even more smooth by doing a multipart document (aka server
> push): finishing a HTML document but not closing the HTTP connection and
> start a new document as soon as someone else drops a line. But that is a
> terrible thing to do in mod_perl, because each client will occupy an Apache
> process as long as he's connected. Writing a simple http daemon handling the
> chatbox on another port wouldn't be that complicated, and there are modules
> out there. Take a look at Apprentice, a realy slim httpd written in threaded
> perl, I'm sure it's somewhere on freshmeat.
>
> Ime
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