[Phpwm] Gmail Talk

[Alan Pope]

On 2/22/06, Iain Wallace <iain at strawp.net> wrote:
> What was with the 8 hour delay between my post and reaching the list? I
> thought we'd sorted that!
>

Teething troubles.

> So the next question: How do you write a web service that remains open
> like that and doesn't get terminated? Could you do that in Apache?
>

A technique used in the open source applications cgi:irc and
shellinabox. I use both daily and they do pretty much exactly what you
described. They open a pipe to a server process.

Cheers,
Al.