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I was watching many presentations about Html 5 WebSockets , where server can initialize connection with client and push the data without the request from the client.
We don’t need Polling etc.
And , I am curious , why Http was designed as a “pull” and not full duplex protocol in the first place ? What where the reasons behind that kind of decision ?
Because when http was first designed it was meant to be used to retrieve documents from a server. And the easiest way to do is when the client asks the server for a document and gets it delivered as response (or an error in case it does not exist). When you have push protocol that means the server would need to keep client connections around for potentially a long time creating more resource management problems – remember we are talking about early 1990s here.