What do you need for comet?

Question

comet

1. What is needed to implement long-polling?
2. What is the axis on the server?
3. What server?
4. What language?
5. Throw examples where the server part is well described and how to put everything together.

Answer 1

I can share my experience in developing comet-server.ru
service comets 1. Instead of long-polling, it’s better to use websockets right away, almost everyone
already has support 2. I wrote only for linux (tested only on Ubuntu, Debian CentOS)
3. Now I have everything works on a small vps from https://fastvps.ru/vps
4. I wrote the backend in C ++ (Others often use nodeJs and python)
5. I can’t tell you about how to assemble from ready-made components. I wrote everything from scratch.