Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for shuttling data around the World Wide Web is not very efficient. Now an HTML5-related standard called WebSocket could cut some of ...

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In the world of real-time web, WebSocket was once regarded as the 'gold standard'. When we build chat applications, online games, or collaborative editing tools, the powerful full-duplex communication ...

WebSockets implement fast, secure, bi-directional, full duplex communication between a client and a server to support real-time, low-latency messaging A web socket is a TCP socket connection between ...

Thanks to its chattiness, the traditional communications protocol for shuttling data around the World Wide Web is not very efficient. Now an HTML5-related standard called WebSocket could cut some of ...