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UniversalComet: Make any web page a Comet end point (ajaxian.com)
13 points by bdfh42 on Dec 31, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



This isn't comet at all and it is pretty inefficient. The script uses zero of YOUR server resources but some server somewhere is getting absolutely slammed. I made a chat application using this method thta allowd you to share photos as well. Worked reasonably well on a very small scale but it certainly is not comet.


Doesn't look particularly Comet like to me, it's polling the server every 2 seconds for new messages. (Fair bit of bandwidth also).

Interesting though.




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