Long polling with NSURLConnection

Question

I\'m working on an iPhone application which will use long-polling to send event notifications from the server to the client over HTTP. After opening a connection on the ser

Answer 1

We're currently doing some R&D to port our StreamLink comet libraries to the iPhone.

I have found that in the emulator you will start to get didReceiveData callbacks once 1KB of data is received. So you can send a junk 1KB block to start getting callbacks. It seems that on the device, however, this doesn't happen. In safari (on device) you need to send 2KB, but using NSURLConnection I too am getting no callbacks. Looks like I may have to take the same approach.

I might also play with multipart-replace and some other more novel headers and mime types to see if it helps stimulate NSURLConnection.