On Mon, 27 Dec 2010, amit paliwal wrote:

> Has anyone ever tried implementing server-sent events by using libcurl.
> server-sent events is a technology to push asynchronous data to HTTP Client,
> whenever server is available with the data.
>
> I am planning to do it, but in case anyone has tried it, it will be very
> helpful for me.

Well, for a server to suddenly be able to send data over HTTP to a client, the
client must be already waiting for that data to come. It means "long-polling"
so that the client basically waits for data non-stop.

> I think as standard libcurl does not support it, so I might need to do some
> changes in the library locally and compile it again.

I don't know about that. What particular details aren't supported you say?

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