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RawHTTP Duplex

• aaaaaaaaaab 8y ago
  We used to do the same thing in the pre-websocket 2000s: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
  • jarym 8y ago
    And I’m sure many a proxy server hated you! Yes it’s an old technique that worked well until I ran into a corporate proxy server that forcibly closed connections after 2 minutes - pings/heartbeats be damned :-(
    • cryptonector 8y ago
      There are proxies that REALLY WANT TO CACHE and those REALLY DON'T LIKE large, indeterminate-length response bodies.
    • Retr0spectrum 8y ago
      The "solution" is to maintain a pool of open connections.
    • SahAssar 8y ago
      Since long running connections are the default in http2 this shouldn't be an issue these days, right?
      • ldng 8y ago
        Yeah, Thanks Google for killing proxies....