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draft-talk-comet-stream-protocol



Internet-Draft                                                  M. Larue
draft-talk-comet-stream-protocol-00.txt                             Rupy
Expires: December 5, 2013                                   June 5, 2013

                    Talk - Comet Stream Protocol

Abstract

   Talk is a very simple way of communicating in real-time over HTTP.

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Table of Contents

   1. Introduction ................................................... 1

1. Introduction

   Talk uses regular POST for the /push data and variable length chunked
   response GET for the /pull data over duplex sockets to the server.

      +------+ -- /push -> +------+
      |Client|             |Server|
      +------+ <- /pull -- +------+

   The transport envelope for each message is NULL termination (\0).

   Instead of a specification I provide a reference implementation:

   http://rupy.googlecode.com/files/talk-1.0.zip

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   In particular the code in: talk/src/stream/Client.java

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   The following files can be of interest, but are not part of
   explaining the protocol:

   talk/src/stream/Server.java
   talk/src/stream/Node.java
   talk/src/stream/Test.java

Authors' Addresses

   Marc Larue
   Sweden

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