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Re: Pusher - Realtime client push service powered by websockets

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Post by Rauchg »

Rauchg wrote: post #5

Try Socket.IO: http://labs.rosepad.com/socket.io/

Also, Socket.IO fallbacks to flash and other non-socket methods (htmlfile, xhr polling, xhr multipart, more to come), while conserving a WebSocket-like API. And you can implement any protocol you want on top of it (such as STOMP, Bayeux, XMPP).

Re: Pusher - Realtime client push service powered by websockets

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Post by sev »

Looking good! One question: As I was checking out the "theater booking" demo, I opened two windows, and in one window I checked out 2 seats. It required an actual refresh on the other window to show the updated seating chart; however, on the other app I tried (to-do list), that was not necessary.

Was this done on purpose?

Re: Pusher - Realtime client push service powered by websockets

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Post by maxthelion »

andr wrote: post #4

This is great, I was thinking about making a similar app, but never got around to it. I'd love a simple ACL for channels. For example, you could do S3-style channel+timestamp+hash authentication, with the hash generated on the server with a secret key. Then for every channel I'd have channel17@r for read-only access, channel17@w for write-only, and channel17 for rw access (default). The way I understand the current s…

Glad you think it's cool, we are pretty excited.

Authentication and access control are features which are very important, and we are working on a couple of options for doing it. Something similar to what you have described is the current favourite, though the hashing probably won't be passed through at channel level.

We decided to get the Pusher launched into beta with stuff like this left out so that we could get a gauge for people's general enthusiasm for such a service.

We'll be busy in the next couple of weeks reacting to feedback, so it is great to have these kind of comments :)

Re: Pusher - Realtime client push service powered by websockets

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Post by maxthelion »

sev wrote: post #13

Looking good! One question: As I was checking out the "theater booking" demo, I opened two windows, and in one window I checked out 2 seats. It required an actual refresh on the other window to show the updated seating chart; however, on the other app I tried (to-do list), that was not necessary. Was this done on purpose?

Sounds like a bit of a bug.

There may be minor glitches in the demo apps. They haven't been where we've been focussing the majority of our energy :)

Re: Pusher - Realtime client push service powered by websockets

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Post by petercooper »

Tawheed wrote: post #3

This is really awesome; except as an app developer, I really rather get a library that I own and have on my own infrastructure than a SaaS model, especially for something so critical to my application.

If you just want the raw "back end WebSocket-compatible multiplexing daemon" functionality, that's not hard to code/devise. You can use something like: http://github.com/gimite/web-socket-ruby - What services like Pusher provide is all the API stuff on the front, maintaining the servers, keeping those daemons running, and, well, just making it super easy to get going without worrying about the back end so much.

Re: Pusher - Realtime client push service powered by websockets

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Post by krobertson »

This sounds very interesting, but since it is a SaaS model and you are relying on their infrastructure, what exactly are they looking at as their business model? Freemium? Any idea of pricing?

It is something I could use in an app I'm working on right now, but I'm just building a simple free tool and would be interested what their plan is for the service before I get myself tied to it.

Re: Pusher - Realtime client push service powered by websockets

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Post by slig »

Tawheed wrote: post #3

This is really awesome; except as an app developer, I really rather get a library that I own and have on my own infrastructure than a SaaS model, especially for something so critical to my application.

I'm thinking about giving this a try: http://github.com/slact/nginx_http_push_module

Re: Pusher - Realtime client push service powered by websockets

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Post by Splines »

dctanner wrote: post #11

Luke Redpath has also published an interesting post: Pushing events to your iPhone using WebSockets and Pusher http://lukeredpath.co.uk/blog/pushing-events-to-your-iphone-...

I've been using notifo to notify myself of the completion long-running computing tasks.

Growl could probably do the same thing, but I already have notifo working and I'm a cheapskate. (Plus, IIRC if I want to use Prowl I need to have Growl running on a PC somewhere).

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