[nycphp-talk] PHP AND AOL Instant Messenger
Chris Shiflett
shiflett at php.net
Sat Oct 2 22:49:42 EDT 2004
--- ophir prusak <lists at prusak.com> wrote:
> Actually, you CAN implement a chat client using only a web page.
>
> Without going into to much detail, you have one frame which
> refreshes every 5 seconds or so to check if there are any new
> messages.
Another way is to use chunked transfer encoding, so that you just send a
chunk at a time. It's sort of the opposite approach, but it seems pretty
popular.
Chris
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