Re: Requesting reviews of Provenance Access and Query document. from Erik Wilde on 2013-03-27 (public-ldp@w3.org from March 2013)

From: Erik Wilde <dret@berkeley.edu>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:55:21 -0700
To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
CC: Graham Klyne <graham.klyne@zoo.ox.ac.uk>, LDP <public-ldp@w3.org>, W3C provenance WG <public-prov-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <51524379.9050207@berkeley.edu>

hello ashok.

On 2013-03-26 16:20 , Ashok Malhotra wrote:
> Could Web Sockets http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/ be used as a PUSH
> mechanism?

not really, at least that's how i think of them. their mechanism depends 
on keeping connections open, and thus it might be interesting for 
browser apps that want to talk to an app server (that's the main use 
case), but for occasional update messages, they really are not very useful.

cheers,

dret.

Received on Wednesday, 27 March 2013 00:55:50 UTC