help with realtime chat

Hi,

I'm an web developer and I'm using a realtime chat to "talk" to my clients. It's made with Perl and uses "push" technology but if I'm "talking" for a few minutes the system frozes.

I know that are several systems that use a "socket" related approach to maintain communication on but I don't know how to do it.

Could someone tell me where can I found samples to study how to do it. They could be in Perl or PHP.

Thanks in advance,

Lopo

Java is much more suited to the task of realtime chat. Perl and PHP both have the ability to do "socket-based" communication, but the limitation is the browser interface.

Scott

You didn't read the question. I want to make it with Perl. Iknow that there are this kind of software in Java.

If you know how to do it with sockets please send me a sample, if not don't bother to tell me what I already know.

Best regards,

Lopo

Actually, I did read the question. You said you had a version that used Perl and it didn't work well. I suppose I may have misunderstood because I thought you wanted to make a version that would work well. Perl & PHP can do "sockets", but the browser interface makes them unsuitable in comparison to Java. If you would like to insist on using the wrong tool for the job there are 30 examples of "chat" apps in perl at:

http://cgi.resourceindex.com/Progra...ipts/Perl/Chat/

and 12 examples of "chat" in PHP at:

http://php.resourceindex.com/Complete_Scripts/Chat/

and you may want to take note that it is difficult to not tell someone what they already know when they fail to mention it in the first place. Or did you not remember that you didn't mention Java in your origianl post?

Rest assured, I will refrain from telling you anything in the future.


Scott