There is. It uses HTTP to set up the socket but once it's set up, it's a real full duplex socket which the server can use to push data. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket
-- Kyle Mathews Blog: kyle.mathews2000.com/blog Twitter: http://twitter.com/kylemathews On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Jeremy Sandberg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I finally got around to looking at this today, and it looks like it'll do >> what I need it to. Thanks for the tip. Web sockets are pretty cool. For >> those who aren't familiar with them, it looks like they let you do push >> notifications to a browser without having to do the kind of polling that you >> used to have to do. >> >> It has to either be doing normal short polling or long lived connection > polling. It just hides it from you. There is no such thing as "push" to > browsers. > > -------------------- > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their > author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list >
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