iis 与 http 中的服务器到服务器通信

Question

I have two servers running in iis on different computers and they need to communicate with each other. Because of firewalls etc http is the only real option. It's bidirectional communication, not just request/response. Web sockets would be good, but the spec for that isn't finished so I'm wondering if there are any other options I should look at?

Answer 1

I would spend a few minutes thinking about wether my communication could actually be done using request response, a lot of times you can convert your communication into request response. HTTP is really very request response based so you kind of have to hack around it using various comet techniques like long polling. If you have control over both ends of the communication then there is no reason not to use web sockets even if the standard isn't settled upon. So long as you agree with yourself how it should be implemented complying with the final standard isn't important.