Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/03/06 14:15

Lenard Redwood wrote:
> How about keeping the connection open for a minute, then reopen it?
>
> Services like Gtalk (http://mail.google.com/mail/help/chat.html),
> Interaction (http://www.interactionchat.com/) and Meebo
> (http://www.meebo.com/) use an open-connection and this allows
> reception of new messages instantly without the need of a Java applet
> or a Flash application. There's gotta be a way...
>

I don't know about Gtalk - I don't do Gmail, so I don't know how they do it.

Interactionchat and Meebo both use Ajax, so I suspect they're using
javascript to poll the server.

No, there is absolutely no way - nada - zip - zero to the infinite power
- way to "push" data with the http protocol. It is strictly a
request/response protocol, with the request initiated by the client.


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