Comments on: Using BOSH to create a real-time, Javascript chat client http://willem.stuursma.name/2009/08/31/using-bosh-to-create-a-real-time-javascript-chat-client/ Passionate on product and programming Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:14:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Matthijs http://willem.stuursma.name/2009/08/31/using-bosh-to-create-a-real-time-javascript-chat-client/#comment-72 Fri, 04 Jun 2010 09:55:11 +0000 http://willemst.wordpress.com/?p=119#comment-72 Interesting idea – I looked at something similar once using COMET (one of the fancier names for event-driven / push AJAX) and a custom socket handler in PHP – instead of letting apache run for a long time, you simply fork a PHP process that does just that.

Mind you, PHP is still the wrong tool for that particular job :)

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