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[Hans Zaunere]

The nature of HTTP doesn't permit this.  However, HTTP/1.1 does allow
for persistent connections.  With some handy-work you might be able to
keep the connection up, and have the browser poll the server, however
this doens't really get you that much.  I think this really needs to be
implemented client-side, ie, have javascript or something refresh every
few seconds, or so (not the whole page, necessarily, but maybe a little
frame/piece of the page).  One poster spoke of using Flash, which is a
very exciting technology.  A friend of mine uses Flash a lot and knows
how this would work - unfortunatley I do not.

Hans Z.

--- Phil Powell <soazine at erols.com> wrote:
> Is it possible in PHP and/or other scripting languages to set up a
> streaming thread to pass messages back and forth between server and
> client?  I want to update my chatroom to stream but don't know where
> I can turn to figure out how to do that.
> 
> Thanx
> Phil
> 
> 


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