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Bug 29305 - Common infrastructure for real-time data push to web app (comet, WebSockets)
Common infrastructure for real-time data push to web app (comet, WebSockets)
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Product: MediaWiki extensions
Classification: Unclassified
Extensions requests (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Depends on: 30555
Blocks:
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Reported: 2011-06-07 21:16 UTC by Brion Vibber
Modified: 2014-06-05 09:21 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Brion Vibber 2011-06-07 21:16:26 UTC
Numerous *really cool things* in the future will depend on having infrastructure in place for sending real-time messages from the server to the front-end web pages (and vice-versa, though usually the upstream pings are an easier matter).

A scalable system probably needs additional servers to handle the WebSockets (or comet/long-poll style HTTP for compat with existing browsers), but a basic or more limited stub implementation could go into a standard PHP core that would still be useful for many things on smaller sites.

This may be more of a tracking bug for now. :)
Comment 1 Roan Kattouw 2011-06-08 11:16:00 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> A scalable system probably needs additional servers to handle the WebSockets
> (or comet/long-poll style HTTP for compat with existing browsers),
We could write a client-side WebSockets layer that falls back to Comet if WebSockets aren't available. In fact, I'd be moderately surprised if something like that doesn't already exist.

> but a basic
> or more limited stub implementation could go into a standard PHP core that
> would still be useful for many things on smaller sites.
> 
...and again, support two entry points (WebSockets and Comet) on the server side.
Comment 2 Brion Vibber 2011-06-09 18:16:08 UTC
There are many such libraries yes. :)
Comment 4 Krinkle 2014-06-05 09:16:02 UTC
This isn't an actionable bug, and its dependencies don't really make sense (is all that going to happen and have a common interface?).

See also:

* (bug 14045) Set up an easy to parse recentchanges feed
  > [[wikitech:stream.wikimedia.org]]
  > [[wikitech:RCStream]]

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