Re: Websockets on the IBMi

Are the things you are seeing just normal activity with any TCP/IP
socket connection?

I used a filter in Wireshark to filter out any traffic that was not specifically between my browser and http://jwebsocket.org

Filter: ip.dst == 83.169.11.55

Without a filter, it is shocking to see all the traffic that gets generated; some of which may be attributed to spyware that most of us download over the Internet.

No, I specifically compared the bytes transferred by the jwebsocket chat service to the service on my IBM i system, which uses XHR and simulate 4 chat clients.

http://www.radile.com/rdweb/temp/meet.html

With respect, maybe you are getting too bogged down
in the detail.

Well, okay. But I have an interest in meeting and broadcast services under HTTP and I want to know if Web Sockets is better than XHR.

With my web socket alternative, there is virtually no latency - ever.

You should try the chat simulator on my Web site. Persistent connections. No latency. No iterative polling. If I were implementing a CTI application like yours, I'd probably use the same technique.

So while waiting for a call, my browser is flooding the server with 600 HTTP requests per second.

I understand. That would be ridiculous. But I see a lot of that on the Internet.

-Nathan.