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Re: Server side push.....?

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Stefan Ram wrote:
> bit-naughty@hotmail.com writes:
>> Server side push.....?
> 
>   Reminds me of when I was young, there was a thing called
> 
> Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace
> 
>   . E.g., one could
> 
[replace content]

That still exists (and works in some browsers); you can see it in action
when the search form on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ is submitted.
While the database query is running, the browser shows an animation of
the Mozilla mascot munching bugs and the text "Please wait while your
bugs are retrieved." After a while, this is replaced with a new document
containing the search results (or a message that "zarro boogs" were found).

Speaking of old Netscape oddities - anyone remember Netcaster and "web
channels" in Netscape Communicator 4? That's the earliest attempt at
HTTP push technology I can think of.

| Channels are Web sites that are automatically delivered to your
| desktop. Using Netcaster, you can subscribe to just the channels
| you want and get just the information you need. This way, you don't
| have to search the Web on your own and look through irrelevant
| information. Netcaster can also update your channels automatically
| so you can always see current information. You can make any channel
| into a full-screen Webtop. [1]

Oooh, a webtop :)


- stefan


[1] Netscape Communicator manual, quoted in
https://books.google.at/books?id=wroH_q74HaMC&pg=PA193

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Server side push.....? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-18 01:24 -0700
  Re: Server side push.....? Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-03-18 11:36 -0300
    Re: Server side push.....? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-19 10:17 -0700
      Re: Server side push.....? Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-03-19 19:09 -0300
        Re: Server side push.....? Ram Tobolski <ramtob@gmail.com> - 2016-03-20 12:12 -0700
        Re: Server side push.....? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-21 11:06 -0700
          Re: Server side push.....? Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-03-21 17:03 -0300
            Re: Server side push.....? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-22 00:18 -0700
              Re: Server side push.....? Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-03-22 18:55 -0300
                Re: Server side push.....? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-28 05:16 -0700
                Re: Server side push.....? Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-03-28 18:26 -0300
          Re: Server side push.....? Osmo Saarikumpu <osmo@weppipakki.com> - 2016-03-22 06:41 +0200
            Re: Server side push.....? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-22 00:19 -0700
              Re: Server side push.....? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-22 00:21 -0700
                Re: Server side push.....? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2016-03-22 09:53 +0100
                Re: Server side push.....? Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2016-03-22 09:54 +0000
                Re: Server side push.....? bit-naughty@hotmail.com - 2016-03-27 12:32 -0700
                Re: Server side push.....? Cezary Tomczyk <cezary.tomczyk@gmail.com> - 2016-03-28 09:49 +0200
              Re: Server side push.....? Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-03-22 18:38 -0300
  Re: Server side push.....? JJ <jj4public@vfemail.net> - 2016-03-19 12:54 +0700
  Re: Server side push.....? Stefan Weiss <krewecherl@gmail.com> - 2016-03-21 01:21 +0100
    Re: Server side push.....? Aleksandro <aleksandro@gmx.com> - 2016-03-21 10:38 -0300

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