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		axod on Aug 29, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Comparison of Push and Pull Techniques for Ajax ... Here's a work in progress of mine that uses long polling and keep-alives. http://www.zchatter.com It works quite well.. pretty much like having a conventional tcp/ip connection for receives, (interlaced with HTTP traffic), and using a separate series of POST requests to send data to the server.

jsjenkins168 on Aug 29, 2007 [–]

Cool project. Do you maintain a blocking server thread for each connected user (like TCP)? Any issues scaling when many users are simultaneously logged in?

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