Can Python work for me?

[Cameron Laird]

In article <4Kv5a.289466$AA2.10970683 at news2.tin.it>,
Alex Martelli  <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
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>It doesn't matter if the server is mocha fudge.  If by "the browser"
>the OP (as presumably he does) means a "vanilla browser", i.e. one
>that implements HTTP and a few other traditional protocols such as
>FTP, the server cannot "send a message via the browser" without the
>browser periodically polling.  "Push" (server taking the initiative
>of sending a message) is not part of today's HTTP.
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>Alex
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All true--but a client (like Netscape's) willing to process
multipart MIME, or otherwise hold the connection, or do simple
DOMish display tricks, can give the appearance of monitoring
"pushed" data.
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