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Re: Which type of network access for this situation?

From Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups comp.lang.javascript
Subject Re: Which type of network access for this situation?
Date 2017-04-18 00:57 +0100
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <878tmyoae2.fsf@bsb.me.uk> (permalink)
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bit-naughty@hotmail.com writes:

> Suppose after a page is loaded, I want to download some stuff (text or
> HTML) later, or even immediately and display it. But NOT on a button
> click, more like say, after a timer goes off or something. What type
> of networking shit do I use for this? Does it call for AJAX,
> WebSockets or the DataChannel part of the WebRTC API, which I just got
> to know about? I'm still not really clear about what the exact
> differences between each of them are....

If the "stuff" (AKA documents) are available via HTPP (and you can
probably arrange that they are), just use XMLHttpRequest.

-- 
Ben.

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Which type of network access for this situation? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-04-17 11:53 -0700
  Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-04-18 00:57 +0100
  Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 01:57 +0200
    Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-04-18 02:52 +0200
      Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 03:13 +0200
        Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-04-18 05:40 +0200
        Re: Which type of network access for this situation? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-04-18 08:22 -0700
          Re: Which type of network access for this situation? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-04-18 08:28 -0700
          Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2017-04-18 16:08 +0000
            Re: Which type of network access for this situation? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-04-19 23:44 -0700
              Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> - 2017-04-20 10:15 +0000
                Re: Which type of network access for this situation? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-04-20 12:56 +0200
  Re: Which type of network access for this situation? maherrj@googlemail.com - 2017-04-17 17:23 -0700
  Re: Which type of network access for this situation? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-04-18 03:29 +0200

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