Socket for gears ?

[Yuri Nascimento]

Hi,
is good idea a suport for socket to gears ?
like adobe air, to connect XMPP for example.




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Yuri Nascimento

[Chris Prince]

Hi Yuri,

Adding support for richer network connections is an idea we have
discussed, though only briefly. It seems like it could be
interesting. Although I don't think we would expose anything as
low-level as raw sockets.

I think the best question to answer first is: what can't you do with
XHR, and why? For example, opening a peer-to-peer connection is one
example I've heard.

--Chris

[Michael Nordman]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Chris Prince <cpr...@google.com> wrote:

Hi Yuri,

Adding support for richer network connections is an idea we have
discussed, though only briefly.  It seems like it could be
interesting.  Although I don't think we would expose anything as
low-level as raw sockets.

I think the best question to answer first is: what can't you do with
XHR, and why?  For example, opening a peer-to-peer connection is one
example I've heard.

hmmm... if peers could respond to http requests
 

[Yuri Nascimento]

Yes, and real socket connection server can make a request for the
client.

On 18 jul, 18:06, Michael Nordman <micha...@google.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Chris Prince <cpri...@google.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Yuri,
>
> > Adding support for richer network connections is an idea we have
> > discussed, though only briefly.  It seems like it could be
> > interesting.  Although I don't think we would expose anything as
> > low-level as raw sockets.
>
> > I think the best question to answer first is: what can't you do with
> > XHR, and why?  For example, opening a peer-to-peer connection is one
> > example I've heard.
>
> hmmm... if peers could respond to http requests
>
>
>
> > --Chris
>

> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:20 PM, Yuri Nascimento <yuri....@gmail.com>