Can a semi-continuously running Perl script call a javascript return protocol?

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I am building a chat room for my website and am trying to figure out a way for a Perl script, that will run continuously as long as people are still logged in, to call a Javascript return protocol when someone says something. I'm not entirely sure this is possible for security reasons. Any insight into this would be helpful.

Posted 10-Nov-11 19:42pm

LordXandor

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Nov-11 1:50am

What is "JavaScript return protocol"? There is no such thing, is it?
--SA

LordXandor 12-Nov-11 15:38pm

Yes, there is. My website has at least 15 of them. That's what Ajax is all about. Check out my website at www.xtremecomutingol.com. The menu on the left does work, even though they apear to be plain text, this will be fixed soon. The entire visit on the website is on one single page using Javascript return protocols and a client side console to process it all.

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Oliver Bleckmann · Accepted Answer · 2011-11-12T06:23:00

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Are you talking about a voice chat? This may be a hard task and the hosting well be even harder (a lot of traffic).

For a text chat see this example here http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxperlchat/[^] using perl and ajax. But be aware, most hosting companies limit the execution time and memory (voice chat) of scripts so your solution may not work on managed webspace.
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Posted 12-Nov-11 6:23am

Oliver Bleckmann

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LordXandor 12-Nov-11 15:33pm

Thank you very much for the help. I am simply talking about text chat. I think this ajax chat will work with some modifications for user login. As for the execution time, I can modify the perl to run only when a user sends a message and use a database for message storage.