Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 08/23/07 15:50

Erwin Moller wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>>
>> HTTP just isn't set up for this sort of thing.
>>
>
> True, but it can be misused for it.
> Long ago I made a site do just that (before Ajax/xmlhttprequests) via
> hidden frame refresh.
> It sucked of course. ;-)
>

And how often have we seen things misused by incompetent "programmers"? :-)

> Java <--> JavaScript is a much cleaner solution.
> But if memory serves me well the visitor had to give the applet rights
> to listen to another port than 80.
> I am kind of rusty with Java these days, so things might have changed.
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller

It depends on your security setup - but if you do need to give it
rights, it's easy enough to do so.

Of course, there is another downside to this - maintaining what could be
thousands of connections at the server. That has its own overhead.

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