module proposal: BOSH

[Phillip B Oldham]

Adam Michaels wrote:
> After much headache with Ejabberd and some internal discussions, we 
> talked about Nginx supporting the BOSH protocol. This would allow 
> simple creation of scalable instant message systems and anything else 
> that requires stateless connections to act statefully.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOSH
>
> Nginx would hold 2 client connections and create a persistent 
> connection to upstream servers. To even begin to make this possible, 
> Nginx would need to support persistent connections to upstreams. What 
> is the status of that feature? Its been listed on the feature request 
> page in the wiki for a while.
>
> Anyone interested in seeing this?
Has any progress been made with this?

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*Phillip B Oldham*
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