I need some help from some linux gurus. I am working on a webapp that includes a comet server. The comet server runs on localhost:8080 and exposes the url localhost:8080/long_po
There is now a Comet plugin for Nginx. It will probably solve your issues quite nicely.
http://www.igvita.com/2009/10/21/nginx-comet-low-latency-server-push/