Re: Backwards compatibility

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From: "Mike Belshe" mike@belshe.com
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>On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote:
> All - the messages exchange below was supposed to be on-list - my 
> mistake hitting reply instead of reply-all ...
> On Apr 1, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Mike Belshe wrote:
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 >>Regarding interleaved vs non-interleaved streams:  It sure seems 
 >>easier to do what you're proposing, but I suspect that your proposal 
 >>won't work.  For example, how would you do a comet-style hanging-GET 
 >>without interleaved streams?
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>>MW: I'm not familiar with exactly what that is, but I think the 
>>answer is use a separate connection.
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>Oh - the browser doesn't know that any given request is a hanging GET, 
>so it can't know to use a separate connection in advance.  You can 
>start forking off new connections for every XMLHttpRequest (since they 
>are more likely to be hanging GETs).  But this is just one of many 
>hacks to make pipelining actually work at all in a real world browser.
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>For more info on hanging GETs - check out this:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(programming)
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>Commonly used for real-time communications like chat.
  
server push?

Adrien