Event Driven AJAX (Comet) - Part 2 - Handling Concurrent Views

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In Part 1 of this series, we saw how event driven AJAX (a form of Comet) can be used to push data to the client without the need for periodic client side polling. However, we also observed that event driven AJAX broke as soon as the client had multiple views of the same page. Worse still, event driven AJAX in its current form also fails to support having more than one page open on an event driven AJAX site. This this article we will investigate how to solve this issue.

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