COMET javascript library

javascript comet
philly77 picture philly77 · May 27, 2009 · Viewed 13.3k times · Source

I am looking for a simple and reliable Comet javascript library. I want to keep a persistent streaming of data from my server (via PHP script) to the client side. I tried building my own using the iframe technique, but there are lots of issues with safari which I experienced. I am just hoping someone else has created a simple library for it?

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Steerpike picture Steerpike · May 27, 2009

There is a jquery comet plugin Probably the best version though is the Dojo library

I have a quick list of commands I used to get a jetty server with comet up and running here

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