On Saturday, September 22, 2012, Dano wrote:
> Thanks David. I am relieved that Lift comet actor support works with iOS6
> - that explains the lack of alarm. I had jumped to a conclusion. Next
> time I will check the demo site first.
> I will do some more digging based on your reply to see if I can pry our
> app loose on iOS6.
> Dan
> On Friday, September 21, 2012 3:57:35 PM UTC-7, David Pollak wrote:
>> CometActors work fine on iOS 6. I just used http://demo.liftweb.net on
>> my iPad and iPhone (both iOS 6). The comet actors stuff works perfectly.
>> If you're having a problem with connection starvation, please see
>> LiftRules.**maxConcurrentRequests. It will allow you to compute the
>> maximum requests for a single session.
>> You can also use the comet from random hostname feature to make sure each
>> request comes to a different hostname which means you'll never have more
>> than 1 Comet long poll to a given host.
>> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Dano <oleary...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Tyler,
>>> Thanks for your response.
>>> I am a little surprised there is no alarm with respect to comet actors
>>> being out of commission on iOS6, but maybe I am just not understanding the
>>> situation.
>>> Probably should have added some detail in the original post. Our site (
>>> playknowsy.com) uses comet actors to support interactive game play
>>> (just like our other site innovationgames.com which is referenced on
>>> liftweb.net as an example site). We tuned our site for the iPad form
>>> factor and touch interface. It also works great on desktop browsers too.
>>> Our site playknowsy.com is currently DOA on iOS6 with respect to game
>>> play (which is the main feature of the site). Any other site on the planet
>>> which uses long polling is also DOA on iOS6. It may be that Apple sees the
>>> error of their ways and fixes the problem (which I expect they will but it
>>> is really hard to wait and do nothing in the meantime).
>>> That said, I was hoping not to have to rewrite our site to use
>>> websockets as an emergency fix (much as I like the solution it provides).
>>> As to the caching content, are you implying I should I tweek the Lift
>>> sources to change the comet actor POST to set the Cache-Control in the
>>> header to "no-cache"?
>>> I am just trying to figure out a "plan B" should Apple fail to come thru.
>>> Thanks again for hearing me out.
>>> Dan
>>> On Friday, September 21, 2012 1:05:06 PM UTC-7, Tyler Weir wrote:
>>>> It looks like Safari on iOS6[3] supports Websockets[1].
>>>> Also, check out this comment regarding caching content[2].
>>>> [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/**wiki**/WebSocket<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket>
>>>> [2] - http://stackoverflow.com/a/**1**2516555/456551<http://stackoverflow.com/a/12516555/456551>
>>>> On Friday, September 21, 2012 2:28:45 PM UTC-4, Dano wrote:
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> As mentioned on hacker news (http://www.realsoftwareblog.**c**
>>>>> om/2012/09/ios-6-mobile-**safari**-web-applications.html<http://www.realsoftwareblog.com/2012/09/ios-6-mobile-safari-web-appli...>),
>>>>> it looks like mobile safari is restricting the number of simultaneous open
>>>>> http connections to 1 (down from the standard 2 all other browsers support).
>>>>> The only guidance I have seen so far is from this post (
>>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/**ques**tions/12506897/is-ios6-**safari-**
>>>>> caching-ajax-results<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12506897/is-ios6-safari-caching-aj...>)
>>>>> which recommends adding a variable to the post which keeps the browser from
>>>>> caching the result from the first long polling call and reissue the next
>>>>> one. I am not exactly sure what this translates to for Lift apps with
>>>>> comet actors.
>>>>> Have any Lifters seen this problem and/or figured out an easy way to
>>>>> deal with it?
>>>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>>> Dan
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