A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6202 Title: Known Issues and Best Practices for the Use of Long Polling and Streaming in Bidirectional HTTP Author: S. Loreto, P. Saint-Andre, S. Salsano, G. Wilkins Status: Informational Stream: IETF Date: April 2011 Mailbox: salvatore.loreto@ericsson.com, psaintan@cisco.com, stefano.salsano@uniroma2.it, gregw@webtide.com Pages: 19 Characters: 44724 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-loreto-http-bidirectional-07.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6202.txt On today's Internet, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is often used (some would say abused) to enable asynchronous, "server- initiated" communication from a server to a client as well as communication from a client to a server. This document describes known issues and best practices related to such "bidirectional HTTP" applications, focusing on the two most common mechanisms: HTTP long polling and HTTP streaming. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce