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Re: Executing code pushed from the server

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bit-naughty@hotmail.com wrote on 31 May 2017 in comp.lang.javascript:

> Is there any way some JS code can be SENT TO the client, upon a keypress
> at the server, and executed there? Like, people are on a website, and
> when the key is pressed on the server, they see something new happening
> inside their browser? I'm guessing this is something to do with
> EventSource and eval, but....*how* though? 

A server cannot initiate, it is there to "serve".

However, a web-page in a browser can poll the server and get any code and 
then execute it in the browser. [or even unsafely outside a browser, say in 
a cscript script.]

Whatsapp is an example.


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Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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Executing code pushed from the server bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-05-31 10:34 -0700
  Re: Executing code pushed from the server "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2017-05-31 19:43 +0200
  Re: Executing code pushed from the server Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-05-31 20:25 +0200
    Re: Executing code pushed from the server bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-06-01 09:35 -0700
      Re: Executing code pushed from the server Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-06-09 04:54 +0200
  Re: Executing code pushed from the server Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS@hotmail.com> - 2017-06-01 06:39 +0800
  Re: Executing code pushed from the server bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2017-06-09 08:54 -0700
    Re: Executing code pushed from the server Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2017-06-10 02:13 +0200

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