| Tip 32 | Chatting with Web Sockets |
Web developers have been pursuing real-time interaction with users for many years, but most of the implementations have involved using JavaScript to periodically hit the remote server to check for changes. HTTP is a stateless protocol, so a web browser makes a connection to a server, gets a response, and disconnects. Doing any kind of real-time work over a stateless protocol can be quite rough. The HTML5 specification introduced web sockets, which let the browser make a stateful connection to a remote server.[78] We can use web sockets to build all kinds of great applications. One of the best ways to get a feel for how they work is to write a chat client—which, coincidentally, AwesomeCo wants for its support site. ...
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