Question

The other name for Comet is _____________

(a) Server Push

(b) Ajax Push

(c) HTTP Streaming

(d) All of the mentioned

This question was posed to me during an internship interview.

Question is from Scripted HTTP topic in section Document Object Model and Event Handling in Javascript of JavaScript

Answer 1

The correct answer is (d) All of the mentioned

To explain I would say: Comet is a web application model where a request is sent to the server and kept alive for a long time, until a time-out or a server event occurs. Other names for Comet include “Server Push”, “Ajax Push”, “HTTP Streaming”.