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In this chapter, we’ll explore what you can do with the most powerful communication feature in the HTML5 specification: WebSocket, which defines a full-duplex communication channel that operates through a single socket over the web. WebSocket is not just another incremental enhancement to conventional HTTP communications; it represents a large advance, especially for real-time, eventdriven web applications.
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© 2011 Peter Lubbers, Brian Albers, and Frank Salim
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Lubbers, P., Albers, B., Salim, F. (2011). Using the WebSocket API. In: Pro HTML5 Programming. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-3865-2_7
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