On Jul 17, 2012, at 7:05 AM, Flavio Donadio <fla...@donadio.com.br> wrote:

> One of my gripes with using HTTP as the client-server base protocol is the 
> request-response loop. This breaks a lot of desirable features. In my 
> particular case, I want my users to receive "real-time" updates when other 
> users edit records on the database (not really "real-time", but at least 
> after a COMMIT on the database).

There are alternative message-oriented protocols that allow either side of the 
connection to send messages (and are more efficient than HTTP, too.) Google's 
SPDY[1] is one, and my own BLIP[2] is another.

—Jens

[1]: http://www.chromium.org/spdy/
[2]: https://bitbucket.org/snej/mynetwork/wiki/BLIP/Overview
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