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Re:PubSubHubbub by iwwr on Thursday January 20, 2011 @12:50PM (#2124495)
Although comparatively more concurrent connections. The 'hub' looks somewhat like an IRC server. In fact, you can emulate this behavior with IRC.
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Re:PubSubHubbub by joshfraser on Thursday January 20, 2011 @01:24PM (#2124648)
That's not actually the case. It's one ping per event. You don't keep the connection open.
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Re:PubSubHubbub by iwwr on Thursday January 20, 2011 @02:01PM (#2124824)
OK, the client must send periodic pings to the hub in order to receive updates.
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Re:PubSubHubbub by matthewsimon on Thursday January 20, 2011 @05:21PM (#2125554)
Sheesh, did you bother to read the linked document?

The "client" in pubsub registers a call-back URL with the server, and the server then POSTs new data to that URL.

No periodic polling required -- that's the whole point of this.

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Re:PubSubHubbub by iwwr on Thursday January 20, 2011 @05:58PM (#2125680)
Sorry, I was confused. I thought 'hubbub' was a drop-in replacement for RSS. Apparently, it's a meta-protocol built around RSS.
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