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:
>
> Thanks for you responses.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what kind of technology google hangouts uses?
> ...
> I don't see repeated http requests from the Chrome "Developer Tools"
> thing when I use google hangouts when there are no messages being
> sent, so I guess it does not use polling from the browser.

They use a proprietary protocol to communicate with their server.  It's
not HTTP.  They probably do what Björn suggested and set up a websockets
connection to transfer the video.

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

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