Check this out: It's pretty awesome and works with tornado on flash and serves AMF objects.
On Aug 31, 12:03 pm, David Koblas <kob...@extra.com> wrote: > Funny you should ask -- > > The basic challenge with any chat application is the long polling bit, > django by default isn't really designed to handle that. Other servers > (Tornado, etc.) are much better at handling the long polling cycle that > typical web chat applications require. > > I was just finishing an exploration of Django+Tornado -- building a chat > application -- which I've now pushed up to github. > > http://github.com/koblas/django-on-tornado > > The only "trick" at the moment is that a response that is returned via > the async Tornado handler isn't passed back up the middleware stack, > pondering good ways to deal with that. But in the mean time, here's a > functional chat application to play with if you're interested. > > --koblas > > On 8/31/10 4:34 AM, Shamail Tayyab wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am working on a chat application in Django, how can I ensure that > > I do not have to poll the server for any chat data. > > > Possible approaches that I've been to: > > > 1. BAD - use polling. > > > 2. Use long polling - bad approach afa browser support is concerned. > > > 3. Using sockets in flash - makes the application flash dependent. > > > Is there some good way to do this? Or if there is something Django > > specific? Something like HTTPBinding or any 3rd party tested libraries? > > I am expected to provide support till IE6. :-( > > > Correct me if I am wrong, flash is available on 95% of the systems, > > this approach looks like safest bet, is it good to go? > > > Btw, how does Gmail and FB chat works? > > > Thanks > > > -- > > Shamail Tayyab > > Blog:http://shamail.in/blog -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
