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0 pointsskrebbel8y ago0 comments

I thought it was because there's a lot about http that's overhead and/or tough to get right, which can then be delegated to the server.

Also, websockets actually map pretty badly to http, conceptually, and fit zeromq much better IMO.

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goblin898y ago

Regarding websockets (admittedly off-topic re Mongrel though), I recently found out about Pushpin[0], which seems to be an elegant way to translate WS into HTTP, should it be of interest to someone. Basically a proxy-server that takes care of accepting either websockets or HTTP on the front, and talking only HTTP on the other side.

[0] http://pushpin.org

nly8y ago

I evaluated PushPin for a project recently but ended up going with Nchan

https://nchan.io/

jkarneges8y ago

Pushpin uses Mongrel2 under the hood to handle incoming WebSocket connections, so not entirely off topic. :)

It's pulled in as a dependency and launched in the background.

nly8y ago

I thought PushPin was based on Qt?

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