Let's say that I have a long poll server which works as it should - when new client is connected to the website (he just connects as anonymous without authentication), new GUID is issued and stored...

I am using some comet techniques including long polling and forever frame. I am using iframes for cross subdomain stuff. The one issue that I ran into while implementing these techniques is when a ...

I am building a mobile application that has some realtime constraints. Therefore I turn to stackoverflow to get advices & opinions and attempt to decide which is the best solution to upda...

I have developped an application using PHP/MySQL which used comet technology, presicely long-polling. The proof of concept works great, but I am expecting traffic to quickly reach thousands of simu...

I need to make application that needs to poll server often, but GAE has limitations on requests, so making a lot of requests could be very costly. Is it possible to use long polling and make reques...

Im working on a simple chat app, probably 10 to 20 users per room. The Script that queries the database for new messages looks too simple for all the request it'll be getting. Below is the block ...

I'm building a component of a web page that needs relatively constant database polling. I can see two different approaches for this, and I'm wondering if one of them is better than the others, or i...

I'm currently writing a simple cross platform app with Node.js on the server and web/iPhone/Blackberry clients. Bandwidth and latency requirements are similar to something you would see in an IRC "...

Which native server is best, in your opinion, to implement long-polling / Comet? The first target application is chat, but there will be other implementations - we basically need push-to-client cap...

I am implementing a system where I need real-time updates. I have been looking at certain scenarios and among all was Comet. Implementing this I do not see any way this is different from traditiona...

is streaming a viable option? will there be a performance difference on the server end depending on which i choose? is one better than the other for this case? I am working on a GWT application wi...

see also "WCF push to client through firewall" I need to have a WCF client that connect to a WCF server, then when some of the data changes on the server the clients need to update its display...

I've been writing a game in JavaScript, and it's time to make it multiplayer. I would like to use AJAX long-polling to get the current game state, as well as implement the lobby. The server just ...

I'm making a chat application that works with long-polling to emulate a "push" from server to client. Basically, the browser asks for updates, and I reply if there's something new. Otherwise, I ke...

If there is a REST resource that I want to monitor for changes or modifications from other clients, what is the best (and most RESTful) way of doing so? One idea I've had for doing so is by provid...