Intro to Websockets
Websockets allow clients as well as servers to initiate the sending of messages, explains Murtuzaali Surti.
More specifically, he says, “WebSockets implement a full-duplex, bi-directional, TCP-based protocol, denoted by ws(s)://, which enables a persistent connection between the client and the server.”
In this article, Surti shows how the websocket protocol works and describes how to build a websocket application.
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