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A comment on The New Firebase iOS SDK.

Re:The New Firebase iOS SDK by chamanbuga on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:06PM (#5408592)
I imagine you folks don't use HTTP (hanging GETs) to synchronize data, right?
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Re:The New Firebase iOS SDK by mayop100 on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @01:08PM (#5408609)
On iOS we don't use long-polling. On the web we use Websockets when possible, but fall back to long-polling if necessary. We only use HTTPS though for security reasons.
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Re:The New Firebase iOS SDK by chamanbuga on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @02:01PM (#5408992)
Awesome. WebSockets is the perfect technology for this scenario. Do you find WebSockets traverses NATs and firewalls as the RFC promises or it has limitations?
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Re:The New Firebase iOS SDK by mayop100 on Wednesday March 20, 2013 @02:13PM (#5409071)
With SSL it's quite reliable (without it's pretty bad). Fortunately we always use SSL...
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