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How is Comet different from long polling? It's not clear to me. The article only mentions COMET in the context of a Python server, and the Wikipedia page isn'

• paulddraper 8y ago
  It appears my usage is a little different than wikipedia. Apparently "Comet" can mean multiple things. I meant "streaming Comet", which is in my experience what most people mean. Long polling: (1) Request (2) Wait (3) Receive an event. (4) Go back to #1. Streaming Comet: (1) Request (2) Wait (3) Receive an event (4) Go back to #2. Rather than getting a raw response from the server in a request, streaming Comet loads the response in a iframe. The response is streaming HTML and has a series of <script> tags that post events to the parent window. It's arguably easier to manage and scale (no missed events, no need to find the same server again), though it certainly looks a little odd.