Re: Doing things in realtime in perl? [Archive]

fredmv

04-25-2004, 02:22 PM

I thought this thread (http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32776) (which is currently closed hence this new thread) was somewhat interesting, so here is my response to it.

I believe this is possible with the help of JavaScript. You can transparently query the server in the background using something like Vlad's method as described in this thread (http://forums.webdeveloper.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5810). The same method is also described at WebXpertz (http://www.webxpertz.net/faqs/jsfaq/jsserver.php).

silent11

04-26-2004, 07:55 AM

There are two routes that have proven to work well for this kind of thing.

1) A soap (http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=sp1000a5a9&sp-f=ISO-8859-1&sp-t=cat_search&sp-x-1=collection&sp-q=soap&sp-q-1=xml) / JavaScript front end could be used as a layer on top of some server scripting.

2) XUL (http://xulplanet.com/)

Another option is using Marcomedia's Flash.

Just my $.02