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Re:Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? by upofadown on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @01:11PM (#23249282)
>You’ve never used a web-app chat client?

BOSH? Awkward, but it works without websockets.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOSH_(protocol)

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Re:Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me? by nemothekid on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:48PM (#23253733)
BOSH is essentially long polling which is pretty difficult to scale (the worst case scenario can become 1 connection per message for a single client).

I'm pretty surprised however, that a nearly 10 year old standard is being considered as "superflous" as newer technology like WebBluetooth and WebUSB. What we had before Websockets wasn't really long polling, it was Flash.

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