Friday, February 17, 2012

What is long polling?

I fished the following out of here:

In web programming, it is an emulation of pushing data, implemented by repeated polling with delayed response.For instance, data may be "pushed" to an HTTP client by using a long-standing HTTP request with protracted response, hence the term "long poll". A true push data model is not otherwise available to the client because it cannot receive incoming HTTP connections.

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