Chapter 11

Talking to the Server

After reading the previous chapter, you are ready to create a game server and provide a decent infrastructure around it with templates, error handling, and logging. To build a real multiplayer application, however, a server is not enough. The second essential part of the networking architecture is the client. The goal of this chapter is to provide a good level of knowledge of networking from the client’s perspective. In order to do that, we will learn the following:

  • How to load the data from the server without having to reload a web page
  • A newer version of the XMLHttpRequest object called XHR Level 2
  • How to load binary data from the server and parse it on the client side
  • The limitations of mobile devices
  • A few ...

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