Stardust - the simplest COMET server I could imagine
Installing Stardust:
$ sudo cpan Stardust
Running the COMET server on port 5555:
$ stardust.pl --port=5555 --base=/comet
Making pages subscribe to channel 'foo':
<script> var uniqueId = Math.random().toString(); $.ev.loop('/comet/channel/foo/'+uniqueId, { "*": function(ev) { } }); </script>
Posting JSON messages to channel 'foo':
curl -d 'm={ "type": "TestMessage", "data": [3, 2, 1] }' \ http://localhost:5555/comet/channel/foo
Stardust is a simple COMET server that can be integrated alongside existing web applications.
Messages are just abritrary JSON objects.
Channels are where messages travel trough.
Communication with the Stardust COMET server uses JSON over HTTP. The following URLs represent your API.
This is just a little informational JSON-encoded data that tells you what version of the Stardust server you're using.
This returns a list of all the channel names currently in use as a JSON-encoded array of strings.
This returns info about the specified channels as a JSON-encoded array of objects.
This allows one to send a message to the specified channels.
Parameters:
an JSON-encoded object. This parameter may be repeated if you want to send more than one message per POST request.
Long poll on this URL to receive a stream of messages as they become available. They will come back to you as a JSON-encoded array of objects.
upstream stardust_com_et { server 127.0.0.1:5742; } server { listen 80; server_name stardust.com.et; location / { root /www/stardust.com.et; index index.html index.htm; } location /comet { proxy_pass http://stardust_com_et; } }
TODO
<VirtualHost *:80> ServerName stardust.com.et DocumentRoot /www/stardust.com.et CustomLog logs/stardust.com.et-access_log combined ErrorLog logs/stardust.com.et-error_log <Directory "/www/stardust.com.et"> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all </Directory> ProxyRequests Off ProxyPass /comet http://127.0.0.1:5742/comet ProxyPassReverse /comet http://127.0.0.1:5742/comet </VirtualHost>
http://github.com/beppu/stardust/tree/master
http://github.com/beppu/jquery-ev/tree/master
AnyEvent, Coro, Continuity
Squatting
http://groups.google.com/group/squatting-framework
John BEPPU <beppu@cpan.org>
Thanks to Marc Lehmann for his work on AnyEvent and Coro.
Thanks to Brock Wilcox and Scott Walters for their work on Continuity.
Copyright (c) 2009 John BEPPU <beppu@cpan.org>.
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To install Stardust, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Stardust
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Stardust
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.