Re: Thoughts on 2-way RPC

On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 03:51, Tupshin Harper wrote:
> Not strictly true. Anytime you have the ability to keep a tcp session 
> open (e.g. telnet or ssh), the server can initiate a transfer to the 
> client without the client polling.
>
> Check out this post from March of 2002 which talks about using http 
> keep-alive to handle this reasonably efficiently. As far as I can tell, 
> all of the mentioned issues are still quite relevant to xwt today.
> http://lists.xwt.org/pipermail/dev/2002-March/000039.html

TYes, but doesn't that require modifications to the core?

A subtly hidden client-polling technique does not.
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