Persistent connection with client

Question

Is there a general way to implement part of an application with JavaScript and supplying a persistent connection to a server? I need the server to be able to push data to the cl

Answer 1

Here are a few questions in a similar vein. And of course all the questions tagged comet

• Implementing a self resetting XMLHttpRequest object
• Server-side Push in Rails
• Is there an alternative of ajax that does not require polling without server side modifications?
• Long-lived connections (asynchronous server push) with Apache/PHP/Javascript?