[Twisted-Python] Noob alert - Looking for a framework for creating a long polling service

[Donal McMullan]

There's some simple sample code here:
http://zenmachine.wordpress.com/2009/09/19/twisted-and-comet-comet-in-60-seconds/

The formatting's off, but otherwise it's a succinct demo of the kind of
functionality you may be looking for.

Cheers

D

On 1 April 2010 09:58, ssteinerX at gmail.com <ssteinerx at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 31, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Reza Lotun wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> >> I am looking for a framework for doing a long polling service where :
> >>
> >> clients would connect to a soecific 'channel' and wait for a response
> >>
> >> Where a client admin would push a response only to clients connected to
> the
> >> same channel
> >
> > There is a project built on top of Twisted that does exactly this,
> > called Orbited (http://orbited.org/). It works, and I use it for
> > internal real-time stats web pages. The one caveat I have with it is
> > that it recently appears to be somewhat inactive - though I use it so
> > much I might fork it and continue development ;-)
>
> It seems to have completely stalled just before the big 0.8 refactoring
> effort.
>
> Have you continued, or do you plan to continue development where it was
> left off?
>
> They all seem to have gone off to play with node.js instead.
>
> > If you're looking for a scalable, long-polling queue broadcaster *in
> > general*, I highly suggest nginx_http_push - an addon module for the
> > popular C-based asynchronous web server nginx
> > (http://pushmodule.slact.net/).
>
> Very cool, I hadn't seen that before.
>
> S
>
>
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