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>You’ve never used a web-app chat client? BOSH? Awkward, but it works without websockets. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOSH_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia
by upofadown 6y ago
>You’ve never used a web-app chat client?
BOSH? Awkward, but it works without websockets.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOSH_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOSH_(protocol)
- nemothekid 6y agoBOSH is essentially long polling which is pretty difficult to scale (the worst case scenario can become 1 connection per message for a single client). I'm pretty surprised however, that a nearly 10 year old standard is being considered as "superflous" as newer technology like WebBluetooth and WebUSB. What we had before Websockets wasn't really long polling, it was Flash.