What are the differences between polling and long polling? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Is Ajax considered as long-polling?
What are the differences between polling and long polling? What are the advantages and
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What are the differences between polling and long polling? What are the advantages and disadvantages? Is Ajax considered as long-polling?
polling: hitting a url from a client at some interval
long polling: hitting the url from a client and having the server hold the connection for a period of time, in this way the server can return the connection at the moment when it has information for the client
Not all ajax is long polling. Long polling is best achieved using a framework like cometd. (http://www.cometd.org)