websockets

Websocket is a full-duplex single socket connection over which messages can be sent between client and server. Websocket is designed to be used instead of Comet, Ajax or other long-polling techniques.

See Also

• http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/websockets/basics/
• http://caniuse.com/#feat=websockets
• http://blog.haproxy.com/2012/11/07/websockets-load-balancing-with-haproxy/
• http://nginx.com/blog/websocket-nginx/
• Contributing: https://websockets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/project/contributing.html — Note an entire section dedicated to criticizing & pushing back on cryptocurrency

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