I am using comet for an application, and it is working fine, notice that i am running 2 servers on linode, one is only for host the queue.
For compatibility I am using this https://github.com/gimite/web-socket-js (it is flash based, but works fine and even facebook and grooveshark uses this) -- Bruno Rocha [ About me: http://zerp.ly/rochacbruno ] [ Aprenda a programar: http://CursoDePython.com.br ] [ O seu aliado nos cuidados com os animais: http://AnimalSystem.com.br ] [ Consultoria em desenvolvimento web: http://www.blouweb.com ] On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Anthony <abasta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, June 6, 2011 7:47:48 PM UTC-4, David J wrote: >> >> Seeing that comet is not widely supportted I was wondering if there was an >> ajax poll example? >> > I think there's some terminology confusion. "comet" *is* widely supported, > as it involves long-held HTTP requests via streaming or Ajax long-polling > (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)). Technically, > comet_messaging.py isn't really "comet", but instead uses the newer > WebSockets protocol (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSockets), which > is not yet widely supported by browsers. > > Here's a three-part blog post explaining how to adapt comet_messaging.py to > enable bi-directional messaging and to work with true comet techniques > (e.g., long-polling) via Socket.IO (that's actually covered in part 3): > http://greg.thehellings.com/2011/04/web2py-websockets-and-socket-io-part-i-basic-display/ > > Anthony >
