Re: How does LivePage work?

I see, that's very clever!
Thanks a lot!

On 3/26/06, Stephen Thorne <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 13:50:15 +0300, pete erikson <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >Dear list,
> >
> >I would like to kindly ask you, if you could explain to me, how is it
> >possible to send something to a browser on server-side event?
> >In another words, how is it done that one can type something into a
> >browser-based chat and this is immediately broadcasted to all the
> >participants? I assume they do not send requests to the server every
> moment?
>
> The method used is quite simple.
>
> The client sends a request to the server.
> The server doesn't respond until an event occurs.
>
> A HTTP connection can be held on for many minutes before timing out.
>
> Regards,
> Stephen Thorne.
>
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