NYCPHP Meetup

[Chris Shiflett]

LK wrote:
> Two people on separate PCs are sending instant messages to each
> other through Ajax on a common server. The sender posts a message
> and it gets stored in the database. How does the receiver get
> that message on the other machine?

Use persistent connections and chunked responses. It's a technique now
being described as Comet, partly to play on the Ajax theme.

I give the elevator description (yes, I just made that up) at the end of
this blog post:

http://shiflett.org/archive/232

Chris

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