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Now Lemmy Explain: WebSocket
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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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Think of your computer and the servers on the internet two places connected by a highway. The method of getting something from one place to the other would be to ship it by truck.
Now, the traditional method, HTTP, would be having a one lane highway, and having the truck drive from your computer to the server, and then have the same truck drive back on the same lane.
But for WebSocket, when you just need the thing from the server as quickly as possible, you would have one lanes of a bunch of trucks going to the server, and one lane of a bunch of trucks coming back from the server, which means you'll always be getting something back as you are send things out.
But of course, WebSocket is more complex to coordinate, since there are a lot more trucks going back and forth, so it's good for things that needs immediate updates like chat or stock trades, but for slower things like Lemmy, it could just be simpler to keep that one lane highway.
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