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> 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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