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The web has been largely built around the so-called request/response paradigm of HTTP. A client loads up a web page and then nothing happens until the user clicks onto the next page. Around 2005, AJAX started to make the web feel more dynamic. Still, all HTTP communication was steered by the client, which required user interaction or periodic polling to load new data from the server. Technologies that enable the server to send data to the client in the very moment when it knows that new data is available have been around for quite some time. They go by names such as "Push" or "Comet". One of the most common hacks to create the illusion of a server initiated connection is called long polling. With long polling, the client opens an HTTP connection to the server which keeps it open until sending response. Whenever the server actually has new data it sends the response (other techniques involve Flash, XHR multipart requests and so called htmlfiles). Long polling and the other techniques work quite well. You use them every day in applications such as GMail chat.
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