antichef:

I've been experimenting with Websockets lately for a project. Perhaps that would be an approach you might like? I've not used them in Perl yet. $job is using C++/Java/JavaScript/Python, so all my Websocket experience so far is in C++/Java. I notice that there's a Net::WebSocket module available on cpan, so it shouldn't be too much trouble to get going.

I've found the server side of Websockets to be pretty simple, and though I've not written the JavaScript side, I *did* look at it while debugging some time back, and it looked pretty simple. (I don't recall which (if any) JavaScript module we used on the browser side.)

...roboticus

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