Re: [Cppcms-users] Server Sent events and CppCMS

[Artyom B. <art...@ya...>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Barbu Paul - Gheorghe <bar...@gm...>
> To: Artyom Beilis <art...@ya...>; cpp...@li...
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, August 9, 2012 2:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [Cppcms-users] Server Sent events and CppCMS
> 
> On 08/09/2012 02:23 PM, Artyom Beilis wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>>  On 08/09/2012 01:29 PM, Artyom Beilis wrote:
>>>>     Are you familiar with this?
>>>> 
>>>>     http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/cppcms_1x#Comet.Programming
>>> 
>>>  No, I haven't followed that part of the tutorial, but I read it.
>>>  But thinking of it ...
>>> 
>>>  Will it work if instead of the long pooling connection I'll use the
>>>  EventStream in JS?
>> 
>>  I'm not familiar with EventStream of JS. But if it supports server
>>  side events... Than it does either long polling or some sort of streaming
>>  like hidden iframe or "never-ending" javascript etc.
>> 
>>  There are many COMET techniques.
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/

Ohhh!!

So cool, good to know! ;-)


> 
> Hmm, when I'll have some free time I'll modify your coment example and 
> try to 
> make it work with SSE.
> 
> Wish me luck :)
> 

It should be quite simple, just use async_flush and continue to wait.

It is very nice and what is more important it does not require 
changes in web server api (fcgi/scgi) in order to implement it
unlike WebSockets (that had zillion drafts for it)


> Thank you for your time!
> 
> -- 
> Barbu Paul - Gheorghe
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Best,



 Artyom Beilis
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