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Long Polling/HTTP Streaming General Questions

Yeah, the Comet-like techniques usually blowing up the brain in the beginning — just making you think in a different way. And another problem is there are not that much resources available for PHP, cuz everyone’s doing their Comet in node.js, Python, Java, etc. I’ll try to answer your questions, hope it would shed some … Read more

jQuery read AJAX stream incrementally?

This is quite straightforward when outputting text or HTML. Below is an example. (You’ll run into issues if trying to output JSON however, which I’ll tackle further down.) PHP FILE header(‘Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8’); function output($val) { echo $val; flush(); ob_flush(); usleep(500000); } output(‘Begin… (counting to 10)’); for( $i = 0 ; $i < 10 ; … Read more