ReverseHttp | ReverseHttpReverseHttp Introduction Polling for updates is bad. We’ve known this for about as long as computers have existed. So why are so many web-based services (SUP, RSS and Atom feeds, Twitter, etc.) based around polling? The answer lies, first and foremost, in the asymmetry of HTTP. The web is split into two pieces: programs that make requests, and programs that handle them. It’s very rare to see a sin
