Talk:Comet (programming)

touch —Preceding unsigned comment added by R3tr0 (talk • contribs) 04:08, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

External links to comet

I think its a good idea to have links to some Comet servers. Some 78.232.434.22 guy added a link to StreamHub. Some other guy who hasn't contributed to the page removed it, but I thought it was useful so I added it back in. If you know of any other Comet servers that have free or open source editions like StreamHub please add - I think it is useful so a lot of people don't have to re-invent the Comet wheel from scratch in PHP - trust me I tried! :). Please discuss. Danke. :)

CometGuru (talk) 00:25, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

It's a commercial product. We generally don't put links to sites promoting commercial products on Wikipedia. - MrOllie (talk) 00:34, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

2006 is a bit late

Wasn't CGI:IRC doing COMET in the early 2000s?

68.224.90.49 (talk) 03:55, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Persistent connection?

These words should not be used because I feel it creates confusion with what an actual HTTP persistent connection is, which from what I am reading on the sources, Comet does not use. I am reading that Comet sends one HTTP request and the HTTP response is slowly fed back to the client through emulating lag on the server through some sleep method. A persistent connection is an actual connection that is kept alive after the initial HTTP request and response for sending additional HTTP requests and responses. How does Comet let me send additional HTTP requests without creating an additional connection? It doesn't from what I am reading, unless Java or a similar technology is used for the request, but this article mostly talks about XMLHttpRequest and IFRAME, which do not allow this as far as I've seen. I feel this needs to be reworded to "long-lived" under implementations or sources are needed that state an HTTP persistent connection is used. --Quilokos (talk) 06:51, 1 August 2009 (UTC)