At Google IO 2010, the app engine team announced that they had a Channel API in the works. This week I got invited by Moishe Lettvin of the Channel API team to join a handful of developers to try it out. The api is undocumented at the moment and can be considered in private alpha. [...]
Tag Archive : web sockets
A Simple Experiment with Hookbox
Hookbox is a new Python-based comet server with support for Websockets. It’s main features include: Support for named channels on which data is published/subscribed. Server-side Websocket and WSGI support via the eventlet concurrent networking library. Client-side Websocket support via js.io. Fall-back to a custom comet protocol when websocket support is not available in the browser. [...]
Techniques for Request-Response and Publish-Subscribe in the Browser
I am going to describe two current techniques for building web applications and services that produce/consume data either by Request-Response or by Publish-Subscribe. All web browsers support HTTP which is inherently a request-response protocol typically built on top of TCP. It is used to serve HTML documents (for human consumption) but can also be used [...]
