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How to use Google app engine Channel API for COMET on non JavaScript clients.
I shall be writing a client in python or any other language, and can do HTTP or Socks from client.
How shall I proceed, I want to know what is happening in backed of JavaScript client?
Is JS using Long Polling or what to talk to GAE server.
The asynchronous message passing is done by embedding a hidden iframe in the page, then using the goog.net.CrossPageChannel classes from the Google Closure javascript library to send messages from the iframe to the host page.
The Closure CrosspageChannel code is documented here: http://closure-library.googlecode.com/svn/!svn/bc/4/trunk/closure/goog/docs/class_goog_net_xpc_CrossPageChannel.html
You can easily reverse-engineer the messages that’ll be passed up from the iframe to the host page. These probably won’t change (though there’s no absolute guarantee of that right now).
I’m hoping to open-source the client library for the Channel API this quarter, but the above should get you started.