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What Comet is Not.
It is not a socket API.
It is not a high level poller or poller API, for underlying poll()/select() methods
It is not a TCP socket, even though the events are fired based on IO
API Proposals
Currently there are two API proposals, one lead by remm(sandbox) and one by fhanik(trunk). Everything in here is up for change and comments. The proposals are not very far from each other, but confusion around Comet has lead to further confusion around the APIs. Here is an outline of differences
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