Monthly Archives: March 2006

Comet: Low Latency Data For Browsers (long-lived HTTP)

Comet is fundamentally, the use of long-lived HTTP connections to reduce the latency with which messages are passed to the server. In essence, they do not poll the server occasionally. Instead the server has an open line of communication with which it can push data to the client. Comet applications can deliver data to the client [...]
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