Re: Thoughts on 2-way RPC

Charles Goodwin wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 03:51, Tupshin Harper wrote:
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>>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.
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>>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
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>TYes, but doesn't that require modifications to the core?
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>A subtly hidden client-polling technique does not.
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Some things *do* belong in the core. ;-)

-Tupshin