websockets use http-based long polling so I think the terminology is correct, but I may be wrong.
On Feb 13, 9:59 pm, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday, February 13, 2011 4:41:18 PM UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: > > > Right now the only examples are in web2py/gluon/contrib/ > > comet_messaging.py > > Is "Comet" the right terminology for this? It looks like it uses the new > WebSockets protocol, not traditional Comet. My understanding is that Comet > refers only to the older HTTP-based long-polling and streaming > techniques:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) > > Also, if I'm not mistaken, this implements WebSocket communications only in > the server-to-client direction, but not from client to server. Do you plan > to add capabilities for bi-directional WS communication? True. The idea is that communication from client should go through web2py because needs authentication. > > Anyway, this is very cool, and I think a nice additional piece of > functionality for web2py. Would be neat if we could put together some kind > of chat plugin. > > Anthony
