On 15 January 2015 at 20:52, Mike Bishop <Michael.Bishop@microsoft.com> wrote: > · A long-lived response in which the server occasionally emits > interesting new information (equivalent to WebSockets, if the client isn’t > sending anything after the initial request) > This one is probably better likened to server-sent-events, which is effectively just a HTTP response content type. Websocket should be likened to a long-lived client initiated stream without HTTP semantics that exchanges messages in both directions. your other characterisations are spot on. cheers -- Greg Wilkins <gregw@intalio.com> @ Webtide - *an Intalio subsidiary* http://eclipse.org/jetty HTTP, SPDY, Websocket server and client that scales http://www.webtide.com advice and support for jetty and cometd.
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