I guess they use these two functions to make an Ajax call to their server but I am not sure. How do they do that?
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I guess they use these two functions to make an Ajax call to their
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I guess they use these two functions to make an Ajax call to their server but I am not sure. How do they do that?
Thank you.
I haven’t tried to reverse-engineer Gmail, but most likely they are using some form of Comet (reverse AJAX).
With this approach information is available instantly without any delay and additional network traffic.