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Re:Hotwire: HTML over the Wire by fzzzy on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @06:16PM (#25512596)
Long Polling is how we used to do it. The web page opens a request to the server but the server does not reply. Once the event happens on the server, the server replies to the old request and the client opens a new request.
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Re:Hotwire: HTML over the Wire by jshen on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @08:01PM (#25513289)
Yup, this is much better than that, and nicely integrated for you.
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