Comets natively uses WebSocket as a transport type if it's supported, otherwise it falls back to long-polling and callback-polling. Also, it contains a security structure for clients, which is useful for authenticating and authorising.
Just my $0.02 having used it for a couple of years! Martin Sent from my iPhone On 26 Aug 2011, at 16:19, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > I wasn't able to get ape-server working for the same reason: MooTools 1.3. > > The more I read on this topic the more I realize the trend is toward > WebSockets anyway, which isn't all there but is a real solution. Comet is > more of a workaround. Given our focus it probably makes more sense to build > to WebSockets and only support a limited set of browsers. > > In any case, it looks like socket.io is next on my list. > > Mike
