[Catalyst] Push services with catalyst

[Brian Kirkbride]

Moritz Onken wrote:
> I'm combining ajax with push. So it's a real push service, the website 
> is not pulling the data on a constant time rate.
> 
> A process per client is really bad. I'll need to serve hundreds of 
> client at the same time. Seems like push is not an option...
> 

Ah... after I clicked send I thought "what if it is a true PUSH using 
Ajax to listen?"  Most people think of Ajax polling as a push, though 
it's just looks like push with some granularity.  My apologies for 
assuming...

Have you checked out COMET?  See http://cometd.com/ for discussion of 
all the issues with push.  I haven't looked at it in a long time, but 
it was an attempt to deal with your issue.  The Lighttpd developers 
are working on something similar called mod_mailbox.  I don't pretend 
to understand anything about either :)