josephg/node-browserchannel
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An implementation of a google browserchannel server in node.js
6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2011-11-02 · latest 2025-01-05
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…of (the server side) of google's Browserchannel protocol, from back before websockets existed: https://github.com/josephg/node-browserchannel This supports long polling on browsers, all the way back to IE5.5. It works even when XHR isn't…
comment by josephg · 2025-01-05 · in Back to basics: Why we chose long-polling over websockets -
…websockets would be better. (From memory WS have a per-frame overhead of only about 4 bytes) [1] https://github.com/josephg/node-browserchannel
comment by josephg · 2017-04-16 · in Building a r/place in a weekend -
…if you tunnel your traffic over HTTPS. These days you should just use websockets directly. [1] https://github.com/josephg/node-browserchannel
comment by josephg · 2017-01-09 · in Chisel – A fast TCP tunnel over HTTP -
…avoid socket.io's awful design decisions around reconnection, error handling and code quality. [1] https://github.com/josephg/node-browserchannel
comment by josephg · 2016-11-09 · in Why you should never use Socket.IO -
…And node-browserchannel (mine) which implements google's browserchannel protocol: https://github.com/josephg/node-browserchannel (BrowserChannel works all the way down to IE5.5!)
comment by josephg · 2012-01-19 · in The Trello Tech Stack -
…ago and went to the other extreme to see what it was like. I think I have more comments than code: https://github.com/josephg/node-browserchannel/blob/master/l... Rendered with docco: http://josephg.github.com/node-browserchannel/docs/serve…
comment by josephg · 2011-11-02 · in Storing hundreds of millions of simple key-value pairs in Redis