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{{short description|Web application model}}
'''Comet''' is a [[web application]] model in which a long-held [[HTTPS]] request allows a [[web server]] to [[Push technology|push]] data to a [[web browser|browser]], without the browser explicitly requesting it.<ref name=
The use of Comet techniques in [[web development]] predates the use of the word ''Comet'' as a [[neologism]] for the collective techniques. Comet is known by several other names, including
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|publisher = Apress
|isbn = 978-1-59059-998-
|date=July 2008
}}</ref> ''Two-way-web'',<ref name="ajax-dp-oreilly"/> ''HTTP Streaming'',<ref name="ajax-dp-oreilly">{{cite book
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|chapter=Web Remoting
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''[[HTTP push|HTTP server push]]''<ref>{{cite web
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</ref> The term ''Comet'' is not an acronym, but was coined by Alex Russell in his 2006 [[blog]] post
|url = http://infrequently.org/2006/03/comet-low-latency-data-for-the-browser/
|title = Comet: Low Latency Data for the Browser
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|date = 2006-03-04
|access-date = 2014-11-02
}}</ref>{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}
In recent years{{When|date=January 2025}}, the standardisation and widespread support of [[WebSocket]] and [[Server-sent events]] has rendered the Comet model obsolete.
==History==
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| publisher = Northeast Parallel Architecture Center, College of Engineering and Computer Science
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}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=December 2017}} implemented in 1996–98 at the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center ([http://surface.syr.edu/npac/ NPAC]) at [[Syracuse University]] using [[DARPA]] funding. TANGO architecture has been patented by Syracuse University.<ref>{{Citation|
| url = https://www.dsc.soic.indiana.edu/sites/default/files/tr_9921.pdf
| title = Experiences with Using TANGO Interactive in a Distributed Workshop
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| publisher = CEWES MSRC/PET TR/99-21
| access-date = 27 February 2016
| archive-date = 8 March 2021
}}</ref> The framework has been commercialized by [http://www.collabworx.com CollabWorx] and used in a dozen or so Command&Control and Training applications in the United States Department of Defense{{fact|date=December 2017}}.▼
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210308093626/https://www.dsc.soic.indiana.edu/sites/default/files/tr_9921.pdf
| url-status = dead
▲}}</ref> The framework has been commercialized by [http://www.collabworx.com CollabWorx] and used in a dozen or so Command&Control and Training applications in the United States Department of Defense{{
===First Comet applications===
The first set of Comet implementations
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==Implementations==
Comet applications attempt to eliminate the limitations of the [[World Wide Web#
Specific methods of implementing Comet fall into two major categories: streaming and [[long polling]].
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====Hidden iframe====
A basic technique for dynamic web application is to use a hidden [[HTML element#Frames|iframe]] HTML element (an ''inline frame'', which allows a website to embed one HTML document inside another). This invisible iframe is sent as a [[Chunked transfer encoding|chunked]] block, which implicitly declares it as infinitely long (sometimes called "forever frame"). As events occur, the iframe is gradually filled with <code>script</code> tags, containing JavaScript to be executed in the browser. Because browsers render HTML pages incrementally, each <code>script</code> tag is executed as it is received. Some browsers require a specific minimum document size before parsing and execution is started, which can be obtained by initially sending 1–2 kB of padding spaces.<ref name="ajaxoreilly">{{cite book
| last = Holdener III
| first = Anthony T.
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| publisher = [[O'Reilly Media]]
|date=January 2008
| isbn = 978-0-596-52838-
| chapter = Page Layout with Frames that Aren't
| page = 320
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|url=https://archive.org/details/javascript00libg_297
|url-access=registration
|date=2006-08-17
|publisher=[[O'Reilly Media]]
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Browser-native technologies are inherent in the term Comet. Attempts to improve non-polling HTTP communication have come from multiple sides:
* The [[HTML 5]]
* The [[HTML 5]] [[WebSocket]] API working
{{cite web
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* The Bayeux protocol by the [[Dojo Foundation]]. It leaves browser-specific transports in place, and defines a higher-level protocol for communication between browser and server, with the aim of allowing re-use of [[client-side JavaScript]] code with multiple Comet servers, and allowing the same Comet server to communicate with multiple client-side JavaScript implementations. Bayeux is based on a publish/subscribe model, so servers supporting Bayeux have publish/subscribe built-in.<ref name="bayeux">{{cite web|author=Alex Russell |year=2007 |url=http://svn.cometd.org/trunk/bayeux/bayeux.html|title=Bayeux Protocol - Bayeux 1.0draft1.| publisher= Dojo Foundation| access-date=2007-12-14|display-authors=etal}}</ref>
* The [[BOSH (protocol)|BOSH]] protocol by the XMPP standards foundation. It emulates a bidirectional stream between the browser and server by using two synchronous HTTP connections.
* The JSONRequest object, proposed by [[Douglas Crockford]], would be an alternative to the XHR object.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.json.org/JSONRequest.html
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* Use of plugins, such as [[Java applet]]s or the proprietary [[Adobe Flash]] (using [[Real-Time Messaging Protocol|RTMP]] protocol for data streaming to Flash applications). These have the advantage of working identically across all browsers with the appropriate plugin installed and need not rely on HTTP connections, but the disadvantage of requiring the plugin to be installed
* [[Google]] announced<ref>App, The. (2010-12-02) [
==See also==
* [[Push technology]]
* [[Pull technology]]
== Notes ==
{{notelist}}
==References==
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==External links==
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