Image via Wikipedia I’ve been casually following the chatter on the hy-bi list about Web Sockets for the past few months. The specification has reached the final draft stages, but the list is still a bee hive of rhetorical debates about several of the protocol’s features. The common thread between these debates is the complexity [...]
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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 [...]
