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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Well, on one hand, you do have to stick to the polling. But your webapp maybe doesn't need to answer right away. For example, it could find that it has nothing to say, sleep in one second stretches till it has something to say (or a maximum timeout has occured) and then say what ever it has to say. There are also systems that hold the communication channel open, so the server knows who it's talking to - but they're not strictly ajax and I believe need alternative http servers (or at the very least an apache plugin. Darn what was that stuff called again?) But then again, I believe an ajax app polling once a second is somehow innappropriate - what are you planning on doing? Loading...
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