On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 19:43:25 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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otherwise, my only suggestion is to use another protocol instead of
http.
What do you suggest?
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I am creating a chat application like Messenger for the web (using the
browser) and I'm wondering if there is a way to receive new messages from
time to time from the server other than refreshing the page each 5 sec.
If there were a way to have the server-side application send new messages
Short answer: Not using HTTP.
However, you can use something like AJAX to just load new data from
time to time and not the entire page.
Or you might be able to keep the connection alive and occationally send
stuff to the client using chunked transfer.
I'd go for the ajax route if you don't need
not clear if you're asking about XMLHttpRequest
http://www.modernmethod.com/sajax/
http://nevow.com/Nevow2004Tutorial.html#livepage
or custom browser object:
http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
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Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If there were a way to have the server-side application send new
messages to the browser this would be awesome because it would save
dramatically on bandwidth. The application would consume bandwidth
only when there are new messages. There would be no
On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 10:03:48 -0300, Simon Dahlbacka
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I'd go for the ajax route if you don't need to support old browsers.
I already use AJAX on several applications, but I don't want to use it in
this one because it would poll the server a lot and it may bring the
rewrite the server to bake a /lastmsg/ folder with the last message in
it. otherwise, my only suggestion is to use another protocol instead of
http.
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Admin wrote:
I am creating a chat application like Messenger for the web (using the
browser) and I'm wondering if there is a way to receive new messages
from time to time from the server other than refreshing the page each 5
sec.
Here's a pretty basic example I wrote a while ago using
Simon Dahlbacka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Short answer: Not using HTTP.
However, you can use something like AJAX to just load new data from
time to time and not the entire page.
AJAX is overkill for this. If you just want to automatically refresh
the page automatically, you can use a meta
