Re: how to push stuff to the browser

Tim Roberts <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.cherrypy
Organization Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Andrew wrote:
>
> I am trying to design a text messaging service with cherrypy.
>
> Can someone give me some advice about how to push some notification to
> the browser eg when there is a new message that arrives?
>
> I have tried to use yield statements, but I want to make like some box
> start flashing or something when a message arrives, and I think I
> cannot do this with yield statements.

You cannot "push" anything to a browser.  That's just not how the web
works -- it is entirely a "pull" technology.

Instead, the web page you send must have Javascript code that
periodically polls your server to see if there is something new.  You
can do that with "refresh", but it's more common to use AJAX requests.

-- 
Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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