There is. It uses HTTP to set up the socket but once it's set up, it's a
real full duplex socket which the server can use to push data.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Jeremy Sandberg <jrsand@byu....> wrote:

>
>> I finally got around to looking at this today, and it looks like it'll do
>> what I need it to.  Thanks for the tip.  Web sockets are pretty cool.  For
>> those who aren't familiar with them, it looks like they let you do push
>> notifications to a browser without having to do the kind of polling that you
>> used to have to do.
>>
>> It has to either be doing normal short polling or long lived connection
> polling.  It just hides it from you.  There is no such thing as "push" to
> browsers.
>
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