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21st July 2009 - Link Blog

Reverse HTTP Demo (via) This is a bit of a brain teaser—a web server running in JavaScript in your browser which uses long polling comet to respond to incoming HTTP requests channelled through a “Reverse HTTP” proxy.

Posted 21st July 2009 at 3:54 pm

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