Comment by bullen

What is the advantage over just using this:

  var source = new EventSource('pull?name=one');
  source.onmessage = function (event) {
    document.getElementById('events').innerHTML += event.data;
  };

http://talk.rupy.se/event.html

> If you need bi-directional communication, then you should consider using WebSockets instead.

Or you just do a HTTP request?