I'm building a real-time web application As far as I know, the most popular choices are short-polling and long-polling. What are the advantages and disadvantages might there be for measuring one over the other?...

For example I want to refresh chat messages by multiple tabs with socket.io, longpolling, etc... whatever I have... For that I want to use only a single connection for all of the tabs. How can I make this? I can store the common data in localStore, c...

Well, there's a lof of information about websockets. The technology itself is amazing, there's no doubt in this fact. And before i will start using them in my app i just want the community to answer these questions:     "...in order to ma...

What's the best way to send data from client to server?  The example code I'm using is from How do I implement basic "Long Polling"?...

I have this service which checks if there a new data from the back end. It it working fine.But the problem is I cant get the data from the service to the controller using $watch nor using the promise.   SERVICE  .service('notificationPollService&...

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I have a long-lasting http request (a lot of computation in the back-end).  Currently it's all synchronous, while the server computer, the browser doesn't see the output/result. After a while, the connection is dropped and an timeout error is...

I seem to be having a problem with long polling and IE.  This is my first foray into long polling, so I set up a simple test to see if I could make it work.  It seems to behave just fine with FF and Chrome, but I'm getting different results with...

My web app uses the 'long poll' method to keep up to date with the latest data from my server. The server only responds when it has new data, which can be many minutes apart. (It is a heating control system where you only see updates when roo...

I'm trying to use EventSource for a streaming connection to a server. But I need to set a session key header on the underlying XHR request. How do I access the XHR from the EventSource object if it's even possible? Thanks!  Note that I'm...