What is a Bosh url?

What is a Bosh url?

Bidirectional-streams Over Synchronous HTTP (BOSH) is a transport protocol that emulates a bidirectional stream between two entities (such as a client and a server) by using multiple synchronous HTTP request/response pairs without requiring the use of polling or asynchronous chunking.

What is Bosh in XMPP?

BOSH (previously known as ‘HTTP binding’ or “http-bind”) is a technology to use XMPP over HTTP, the protocol that powers the web. This allows XMPP applications to run in web pages, but also any other HTTP-only environment such as behind restrictive firewalls.

Can you use WebSockets with HTTP?

ANY WebSocket implementation MUST use HTTP (and all semantics therein, including authentication, redirection, etc) for the initial handshake. It is mandated by the WebSocket protocol specification, RFC 6455.

What is HTTP and WebSocket?

Unlike HTTP, where you have to constantly request updates, with websockets, updates are sent immediately when they are available. WebSockets keeps a single, persistent connection open while eliminating latency problems that arise with HTTP request/response-based methods.

What is HTTP bind?

The HTTP binding provides connectivity to HTTP-hosted applications. It mediates communication between HTTP applications and allows existing HTTP-based applications to be called from a module.

Is HTTP bidirectional?

After a HTTP/2 connection is established, a server can initiate streams to the client at any time, and the client can respond to the incoming streams accordingly. That is, the communication over HTTP/2 is bidirectional and symmetric. All of the HTTP/2 technologies and optimizations still apply.

Does HTTP use sockets?

HTTP is a protocol for defining messages sent throughout the web. As suggested above, communication via HTTP is usually done using sockets and the TCP transport protocol.

Can WebSockets replace HTTP?

There is no harm if you support both models. Use REST for one way communication/simple requests & WebSocket for two way communication especially when server want to send real time notification. WebSocket is a more efficient protocol than RESTful HTTP but still RESTful HTTP scores over WebSocket in below areas.

Is WebSocket faster than HTTP?

All the frequently updated applications used WebSocket because it is faster than HTTP Connection. When we do not want to retain a connection for a particular amount of time or reuse the connection for transmitting data; An HTTP connection is slower than WebSockets.

What port is HTTP?

Port 80
Port 80 is the port number assigned to commonly used internet communication protocol, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).