Smart Clients: ReverseHTTP & WebSockets - igvita.comBy Ilya Grigorik on August 18, 2009 Polling architectures, as pervasive as they are today, did not come about due to their efficiency. Whether you are maintaining a popular endpoint (Twitter), or trying to get near real-time news (RSS), neither side benefits from this architecture. Over the years we've built a number of crutches in the form of Cache headers, ETags, accelerators, but none have fund
