Setting up connection transport strategies
When a connection is performed, a transport strategy must be put in place in order to properly move bits back and forth between the client and server. Let's recap them quickly:
- WebSocket: This is an HTML5-related protocol that provides full duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection, and is available in modern web browsers and web servers
- Server-Sent Events: This is a strategy based on the EventSource HTML5 support, which allows a server to stream messages to the connected clients
- Long Polling: This is quite a basic technique, which involves opening a connection and keeping it artificially alive to create the illusion of a persistent connection
You might have noticed that Forever Frame, which ...
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