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Questions tagged [long-polling]

In web programming, long-polling is an emulation of pushing data, implemented by repeated polling with delayed response.

Long polling is itself not a true push; long polling is a variation of the traditional polling technique, but it allows emulating a push mechanism under circumstances where a real push is not possible, such as sites with security policies that require rejection of incoming HTTP/S Requests.

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Timer won't die javascript

I am doing some long polling.. and I have a function to make a button blink when a certain statement is true.. Here it is: function blinking(object, x) { console.log(x); if(x>0){ var existing_timer = object.data('clock'); …
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How can I cancel a node thread prematurely from my frontend?

I have a react web app which generates solutions for rubik's cubes. When the user makes a query on my site, it starts a long computation process (anywhere from 1 second - 240 seconds). Every time a solution is found, the state is changed and the…
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Once in a while, axios http long polling not returning at all

I have a function that looks like async function longPoll() { let timeout = 0 try { // perform longPoll tasks let response = await axios.get(config.url) const data = response.data && response.data.data if…
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Real-time Web Application using what and why? Explanations and small live demo needed

I wanted to learn, how to make "notification"/"chat" like thing of facebook and google. I searched through all web/ almost stack overflow questions to get my answer, but all I end up not making even a single chat box. I searched and have a great…
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