Re: BLOGGING and/or WIKI modules for Dancer2

FWIW, websockets are The Best® way to do live updates and such in a web GUI. Ajax can only pull (client initiated request) but websockets can pull and push (server sends data without being asked and they have *much* smaller overhead for long running connections). With Ajax, you'll always have to be asking the server, should I update, should I update? Works fine of course and I do it all the time. I'd love to switch to websockets in many places but I'm not a websocket dev yet (only toyed with it to date) so I can't give more advice or caveats.

Update: Corion mentioned something below that I’m also going to try and sounds easier. I’ve been playing with Mojo and this kind of stuff – Writing websocket chat using Mojolicious Lite. I was going to write a log file tailer with it as my first production project but R&D is verrrrrryyyyy far down on my work list for awhile now (and I have no free time at home either).

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Re^2: BLOGGING and/or WIKI modules for Dancer2 by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 13, 2016 at 15:15 UTC
Personally, I found Server-sent Events / EventSource much easier as it is unidirectional and has less features/security issues like scanning your internal network. With both, the server can notify the client of changes and send the changed data.	[reply]
Re^3: BLOGGING and/or WIKI modules for Dancer2 by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Dec 13, 2016 at 16:08 UTC
Looks wonderful. I am out of the loop. Thanks for mentioning it.	[reply]
Re^4: BLOGGING and/or WIKI modules for Dancer2 by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 13, 2016 at 16:12 UTC
There are two modules for handling Server-Sent Events that I know off: Plack::App::EventSource - by vti HTTP::ServerEvent - by me, but it only handles building the string to write. It includes a Plack demo as Plack::Example::ServerEvents.	[reply]
Re^3: BLOGGING and/or WIKI modules for Dancer2 by Anonymous Monk on Dec 14, 2016 at 00:48 UTC
has less features/security issues like scanning your internal network. Hi, whats this now?	[reply]
Re^4: BLOGGING and/or WIKI modules for Dancer2 by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 14, 2016 at 08:21 UTC
Using ~~WebRTC~~ WebSockets, you can instruct the browser to connect to arbitrary IP addresses within your local network to arbitrary ports and speak arbitrary TCP protocols to it. So you don't even need DNS rebinding but can write and deliver a port scanner in HTML+Javascript.	[reply]
Re^5: BLOGGING and/or WIKI modules for Dancer2 by Anonymous Monk on Dec 14, 2016 at 09:47 UTC
Re^6: BLOGGING and/or WIKI modules for Dancer2 by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 14, 2016 at 09:49 UTC
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