Hi!
Is there a way to have a persistent connection between the client and the server, through which to pass data from one to the other? For example, having a webchat application that connects to the server using the XMLHttpRequest javascript object and keeps the connection alive until the page is closed (consider a "perfect" environment where it's not interrupted by 3rd party) or until the client decides to disconnect. How would the client pass data to the server and viceversa?
The best method I know for this is to have a connection which is reopened after the client receives information, in order to use the POST method to pass a response.
After reading the first paragraph, I guess my question would be: can the client respond to information pulled from the server using the same XMLHttpRequest object?
I'm interested in both the PHP and JavaScript, if this is possible.
Regards,
Tom
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Heya, Tom.
This is not possible. HTTP is stateless by nature; as soon as the request is fulfilled, the connection is terminated.
In the situation you are describing, you can simply create a new instance of an XMLHttpRequest object and send() it as soon as the current XMLHttpRequest instance's onreadystatecha nge() fires.
It doesn't matter which instance you use; it's a new request as far as the server is concerned.
The browser will pass a session ID with the request, so you can use $_SESSION to store User-specific information.
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