Mike Taulty was intrigued by
a post from Tomek which has links to a prototype of an application built with Silverlight but using WebSockets, so he decided to
explore that matter by himself.
So, traditional sockets are great in that they allow full duplex comms such as when the server wants to notify the client that something has happened but they’re not so great in that they require an open connection which tends to limit your server side scalability. They’re also not so great when it comes to crossing boundaries that only allow HTTP on port 80 or 443.