Pushing data to web page

[TheFarSeer]

Hi,
i have a server that recieves data often from a third party data provider
often. I would like to PUSH this data to the client webpage, WITHOUT having
to force the user to hit refresh or without having to use client side polling
and autorefresh. Once recieved on the client, i can use something like DHTML
to add it to a table.

Any suggestions on how to go about this or what is the best technology to
use for doing this? Any sample applications out there doing this today?

thank you very much.

[jongalloway]

One general approach is to include a hidden IFRAME with a META REFRESH
tag or JavaScript timeout which calls a page on the server. If the data
hasn't changed, the server page returns an empty string. If the server
data has changed, the page returns a Javascript function that updates
the page.

This is the equivalent of client side polling, but without the downside
of page refreshes - it's invisible to the user. I believe GMail does
this now, as well as many web based chat programs.

As far as I know, you can't push data from server to client without
some sort of client side polling mechanism, since browser connections
are stateless and based on server response to client requests.

- Jon
http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway

[Jeff]

http://www.dart.com/livetutorial/dis...%20Time%20Data

[Joaquin Corchero]

Hi,

Using this javascript function:

function GetData(url) {
try{
ob_url = ""
var xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject(" Microsoft.XMLHT TP");
xmlhttp.open("G ET", url, false);
xmlhttp.send("" );
/*var obj =document.getEl ementById("mysp an")
obj.innerText = url;*/
return xmlhttp.respons eText;
}catch(err){
return "nothing"
alert(err.descr iption)
}
}

This returns the data that the url that you give to the function would
display, the only one thing is that only works in Internet Explorer.

The only problem with this is where do you want to call the function, for
that you could have a javascript timer of some sort that would do the job,
incrementing the text of an existing object as a <span>, for example...

Joaquin

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Hi,
i have a server that recieves data often from a third party data provider
often. I would like to PUSH this data to the client webpage, WITHOUT
having
to force the user to hit refresh or without having to use client side
polling
and autorefresh. Once recieved on the client, i can use something like
DHTML
to add it to a table.

Any suggestions on how to go about this or what is the best technology to
use for doing this? Any sample applications out there doing this today?

thank you very much.