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&...

I am trying to implement a global button counter that updates as any/different users click it. So the idea is if one person clicks the button, I see the counter update on my instance of the page.   I currently have the long polling technique working,...

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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...

I need to find a way to update a web App implemented with backbone.  The use case will be the following: I have several Views, and each View, or maybe model/collection related to this view, needs to make different polling request to the server at dif...