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I asked a previous question about keeping up a constant link with a database, and someone suggested long polling. I found a small tutorial with a skeleton, but I don’t understand some things.
The page is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20120306031249/http://www.ajaxprojects.com/ajax/tutorialdetails.php?itemid=575
First, what happens after 30 seconds? Does it quit?
Second, why does it sleep if there’s no new content.
In that example, the loop in the server script will iterate no more than twice. So the request won’t be open too long.
You could just as well do the sleep on the client side.
It makes sense to poll at an interval so that you don’t put too much load on the underlying resource being queried.