Comments on: IM/Chat over HTTP without browser plug-ins

By: kevin

kevin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:50:50 +0000

Facebook does this already

By: Ciarra

Ciarra — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 02:39:09 +0000

Hey Dad its Ciarra I finally found out where I can Chat with you at

By: greensmile

greensmile — Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:51:03 +0000

Ray: a whole lot a quiet on this channel for a guy who has so much on the ball. Did you finally put together exactly the kind of chat client and server[lite] you wanted?
Not idle curiosity here. I just got this IM/HTTP notion myself…for similar reasons too. I was about to do the sever end in Perl CGI, figuring the asynchronous tricks could be carried by XMLHTTP…I had miles to go just to spec it out to a workable level of detail. You can see how much trouble you and your commentors have saved me.

By: Niklas

Niklas — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:27:06 +0000

Is http://meebo.com something like what you desire?

By: Spiros

Spiros — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:41:33 +0000

Have you ever heard of a project called “Pushlets”? It provides a pure HTTP information push mechanism (no plug-ins, no polling, real-time synchronous communication based on DHTML and javascript). The project’s site is “http://www.pushlets.com/“. Also there is a commercial product “LightStreamer” based on the same philosophy (http://www.lightstreamer.com/).

By: Justin Baeder

Justin Baeder — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 22:46:48 +0000

It’s been done recently with Ajax: http://www.unwieldy.net/ajaxim/

By: Still Not Perfect » Jabber + Punjab + JWChat = almost what I’m looking for

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:00:56 +0000

[...] A couple people commented on my project idea for instant messaging over HTTP. After looking at the open source IM market in more depth I’ve found that the pieces I was looking for are actually all there, mostly. [...]

By: Treehouse Cityguide Maintainer

Treehouse Cityguide Maintainer — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:31:09 +0000

I've written a chat based on lace, and have been looking for a way to reduce the bandwidth taken up by polling. Have you developed this idea any further? I suppose that your idea would ideally also involve a dedicated chat server on the server itself...

By: this is maddy cashner

this is maddy cashner — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 12:04:43 +0000

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my dad has an e-mail…whateverittakes@sbc.global.net

By: Ray

Ray — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 22:32:33 +0000

Good links Tom. Neither of those fit what I was envisioning exactly, but they will give me some good starting off points. Wonder why I didn’t find them before…