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What I don't understand in the first place is why we want to create persistent sockets on top of a stateless, request-response protocol like HTTP. Sounds like a
by ignifero 16y ago
What I don't understand in the first place is why we want to create persistent sockets on top of a stateless, request-response protocol like HTTP. Sounds like a travesty to me.
- baggachipz 16y agoWe don't, necessarily. Sometimes a persistent socket is the right tool for the job. Sometimes it's not. The whole point of the article was that Node and its ilk serve both needs very well, whereas older mechanisms do not.