Leveraging Web sockets for powering chat platforms

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Http Long polling vs WebSocket for Chat-Based Platforms?

Consider a client and a server, the client can make a request to the server for the data using the HTTP request. Then the client waits for the server to provide the response. There will be a connection opened till the server has a response to send back. As the connection is open for a long time, that’s why we call it HTTP Long-Polling.

As soon the server has …

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