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[Cruz Bishop <cruzjbishop@xxxxxxxxx>]

In this case, would it be possible for the client to check how many
connections are unused (via, say, JavaScript) and disabling longpoll on
new tabs if there's less than X connections left?

On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 13:54 +0700, Stuart Bishop wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 6:34 AM, Robert Collins
> <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think we should disable longpoll; its not finished, noone is working
> > on it, and it causes semi-regular confusion for folk in the LP team
> > when they cannot use code.launchpad.net.
> >
> > Any objections? [I'm not proposing removing the code yet].
> 
> It is sad, because it is one of those bits of infrastructure we need
> but it is always going to be quicker to hack together a poor
> implementation for a feature that needs it rather than do the work to
> get it into a usable state for all the future features that need it.
> 
> I was saddened to learn that it wasn't operational (despite me seeing
> it in action regularly and having seen demonstrations of it working)
> after recommending it to jml for one of his projects. jono's trophies
> work could also make use of it - rabbit->world gateway is useful. But
> I expect both with just go with polling or web scraping if it is not
> up to spec in time.
> 
> The nasty open bug being described here seems to be a client side
> issue (opening all available connections to a domain and holding them
> open, rather than dropping occasionally to let others use a connection
> or wildcard domain magic to work around the limit), so the server side
> is just fine?
>