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Any time you want to be able to send messages between the browser and a server, websockets are an easy and efficient way to do it. Of course, not all browsers s

by pjscott 15y ago

Any time you want to be able to send messages between the browser and a server, websockets are an easy and efficient way to do it. Of course, not all browsers support them, so it's good if you can fall back to long polling. If you just want to get started hacking, socket.io is a surprisingly slick abstraction layer: http://socket.io/ http://socket.io/

anujkk 15y ago
Socket.io is nice but it requires nodejs at server side that I'm unable to use right now for some reasons. Is there any python/php alternative available?
- pjscott 15y ago
  The best Python alternative looks like TornadIO: https://github.com/MrJoes/tornadio https://github.com/MrJoes/tornadio Does the same stuff as Socket.IO, but in Python. Probably not as widely used as Socket.IO, but it looks really nice.