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Chat Rooms in ASP.

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Topic: Chat Rooms in ASP.

Posted By: davidshq
Subject: Chat Rooms in ASP.
Date Posted: 08 January 2004 at 9:50am

Hi Folks,
Say I have a chat room in Conquer Chat and I have 25 people in it and it refreshes every 5 secs. and the size of the page being refreshed is 10 kb then every 5 secs. I'm using 250 kb of transfer....Wow, that's a lot. So, I'm about to hold a chat in my chat room with an author of a Civil War book soon and I'm expecting a few people...I'm using ASP b/c I can't access Java b/c I'm behind a firewall...Any recommendations on how to lower the amount of data being transferred? If I could get Java to connect behind a firewall that would be nice.
Respectfully,
David.

Replies:

Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 08 January 2004 at 11:15am

Make sure the page being refreshed:

Uses a style sheet
Outputted HTML code has all tabbing removed from it and excess space bars (compressed HTML)
Does'nt have any images on it

That's about all you can do really.

Posted By: davidshq
Date Posted: 15 January 2004 at 8:45am

Gullanian,
Thanks for the feedback. Do you by any chance know of any languages that use less bandwidth than HTML (e.g. Java, Flash, etc.)?
Respectfully,
David.

Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 15 January 2004 at 9:46am

You just said them really! Java and Flash would be the most suitable languages for a chat room online.

Posted By: davidshq
Date Posted: 15 January 2004 at 12:36pm

Gullanian,
Could you by any chance explain to me what the technical differences are between a Java/Flash chat room and an ASP/HTML chat room that make such differences in bandwidth, etc.?
Respectfully,
David.

Posted By: fernan82
Date Posted: 19 January 2004 at 3:08am

A java applet or flash is software that is downloaded to your PC once the first time you access it instead of refreshing a page every 20 seconds. It would only transfer the new strings instead of the whole chat and can compress it. You can also use ActiveX controls but they only work on IE.

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Posted By: davidshq
Date Posted: 19 January 2004 at 5:19pm

Fernan,
Thanks. :-) That makes sense. I guess I'll start looking for a Flash chat room.
Respectfully,
David.