Since you mentioned comet, one of my favourite solutions for sending realtime stuff to web browsers is Server-Sent Events. It's just so simple. I wrote an XMPP

Since you mentioned comet, one of my favourite solutions for sending realtime stuff to web browsers is Server-Sent Events. It's just so simple. I wrote an XMPP bridge for it at: https://modules.prosody.im/mod_pubsub_eventsource https://modules.prosody.im/mod_pubsub_eventsource Of course if you need bidirectional (and not REST) then you generally need to upgrade to websockets.