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Re: Automatic Page Updates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vinay Kumar)
Thu Feb 2 17:08:36 1995
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 22:46:27 +0100
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From: vinay@eit.COM (Vinay Kumar)
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Check out my "stock-ticker" application called "Media On
Demand" Server available at:
http://www.eit.com/cgi-bin/mediaform
for a display/control of live audio/video media's. This has been
tested only using Mosaic (and not Netscape). You will also need
external viewer applications for audio/video.
Enjoy,
--
Vinay Kumar
vinay@eit.com
"Bringing Real Time Network Media To The Desktop"
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> >Is there any way in HTTP for a Server to automatically update a page
> >without requiring the user of the client to click on anything?
>
> Currently no. HTTP is connectionless, and that makes it hard to
> do things after a transaction is completed.
>
> >An example use of this would be if a Client requests a stock price
> >page and keeps the page displayed. Now suppose the stock price
> >changes. Is there a way within HTTP for the Server to update the page
> >automatically without requiring the user to click on the reload option?
>
> Another way to do this is to provide a stock-ticker application that
> is initialized by the web client when it receives application/x-stock-ticker
> data. The browser forks off the special viewer which opens a separate
> communication channel to the server.
>
> The previously noted use of Expires: xxx header is interesting - I don't
> think it will work in the described manner until after a few revisions
> of browser software have passed...
>
> Christian "web-head"
>
>
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