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Long-Polling vs WebSockets vs Server-Sent Events
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Long-Polling, WebSockets, and Server-Sent Events are popular communication protocols between a client like a web browser and a web server. First, let’s start with understanding what a standard HTTP web request looks like. Following are a sequence of events for regular HTTP request:

  1. The client opens a connection and requests data from the server.
  2. The server calculates the response.
  3. The server sends the response back to the client on the opened request.

Ajax Polling

Polling is a standard technique used by the vast majority of AJAX applications

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