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8th December 2008 - Link Blog

ptth (Reverse HTTP) implementation in a browser using Long Poll COMET. Donovan Preston experiments with the cleverly named idea of ptth, where servers send HTTP requests to clients.

Posted 8th December 2008 at 5:22 pm

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