[MUD-Dev2] [DESIGN] AJAX Client/Servers?

[Jeremy Noetzelman]

On 2/14/07, Phillip Lenhardt <philen at monkey.org> wrote:
>
> Is anyone aware of or working on AJAX(ish) client/server code for
> something mud-like?  I am specifically not interested in emulating
> a telnet+ansi connection in a browser.  I am interested in the
> details of making http 1.1 keep-alive and chunking work (correctly?
> at all?) to minimize the amount of socket creation/teardown, error
> detection and recovery when sockets/connections close, etc.  Extra
> points if the server end code is in python.



Take a look at Comet (http://cometd.com/), which has implementations for
Python, Perl, and Java.  The Python variant uses Twisted as a server core.
I've got a few working prototypes using twisted-cometd as a server, and it's
fairly straight forward to get the basics running.