Possibly PHP with auto-session starting is causing the serial responses... See http://php.net/session-write-close Issac Kevin Cadieux wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > I recently started working on a project that involves instant messaging > through a web page. I thought it would be convenient for the server to > push the incoming messages to the user's browser as soon as they are > sent. That is why I started experimenting with Comet in order to make > these server-sent notifications possible. For testing purposes, I > developed a simple web application that waits on the web server for a > URL to load. I made the browser wait for the URL by loading a PHP file > through AJAX. The php file sleeps till the URL is available. The url is > entered manually through anoter web page. As soon as it is submitted, > it is outputted by the PHP file to the browser. The browser then loads > the URL. > > At first I thought that I successfully found out how to use the Comet > technique. That was before I found out that I couldn't make multiple > requests to wait for a URL at the same time from the same computer using > the Firefox browser. Suppose I open 3 browser windows and load my web > application that waits for a URL in all of them. After I submit a URL, > it is not sent to all of them simultaneously. The web server first sends > the response to the first client, then to the second and to the third. I > don't know why it only does this with Firefox... Could it have anything > to do with the Apache web server and the way firefox makes the request? > > > Thank you, > > > Kevin --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx