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mayop100 on March 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The New Firebase iOS SDK

On iOS we don't use long-polling. On the web we use Websockets when possible, but fall back to long-polling if necessary. We only use HTTPS though for security reasons.

chamanbuga on March 20, 2013 [–]

Awesome. WebSockets is the perfect technology for this scenario. Do you find WebSockets traverses NATs and firewalls as the RFC promises or it has limitations?

mayop100 on March 20, 2013 | [–]

With SSL it's quite reliable (without it's pretty bad). Fortunately we always use SSL...

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