Plus, all of this is requires support on the server end as well as the client. A lot of people look at SocketIO as a client-side only library, but it's not. It

Plus, all of this is requires support on the server end as well as the client. A lot of people look at SocketIO as a client-side only library, but it's not. It has connection implementors written on the server side to support things like multiplexing over one channel.