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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:09:31 -0700
From: Roman V Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com>
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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P on android
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On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 10:24 -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
> because there can only be one outstanding request -- with continuous polling.

Unless I misunderstood you, this is not quite true. You can have
as many outstanding requests as you have XMLHTTPRequest objects.
And, of course, you can do AJAX Push using various techniques.

So it really is not all that different, except that you have
to strip the HTTP envelope.

Thanks,
Roman.