Entries tagged with websocket

Websocket support for django!

20. July 2010 - view comments

You know what WebSockets are? It's a new web protocol for bidirectional connections between the browser and your application server. This is a huge win over AJAX and plain HTTP since you don't need to establish a new connection for every tiny message.

Like TCP socket but for the web.

It's an exciting new technology - so I started experimenting with WebSockets and with my favourite webframework Django. Here is what I came up with, bundled into a reusable app called django-websocket.

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