Stream Updates with Server-Sent Events: Are like websockets but unidirectional, from the server to the client. Most modern browsers support it.
It can be combined with XmlHttpRequest / ajax if the client needs to send events to the server, i.e. "emulate" websockets. >From https://github.com/rwldrn/jquery.eventsource: "Q. why use EventSource rather than Websockets? A. EventSource is easier to setup on server (uses http), lighter and most of the times - that's what you acually need. (via temp01)" Other resources: Discussions: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/eventsource/basics/ http://www.prodigyproductionsllc.com/articles/programming/javascript/avoid-using-eventsource-server-sent-events/ A JS library: https://github.com/Yaffle/EventSource Implemetation on python2/3: https://github.com/niwibe/sse.git DJango implementation: https://github.com/niwibe/django-sse.git --
