Web sockets server side processing model

Question

To implement a server supporting clients using web sockets, do servers keep an open HTTP connection with each client? How can this scale?

What are the \"programming mod

Answer 1

Take a look at HTML 5 WebSockets implemented in Tornado webserver: http://bret.appspot.com/entry/web-sockets-in-tornado

I have not played with this module yet, though.