hookbox

Suggest Comet server

I am looking for open-source linux-based Comet server. Currently, looking at Hookbox - but as it's in Python, I am concerned about performance. Does Python instead of C++ have big impact on performance here? Developer estimated it's performance to about 100 of requests per second when having 100 channels... Not really fast :-| Could y...

Catch action parameter in route

I'm making use of hookbox which handles a socket for web. My browser sends information with javascript to hookbox and hookbox forwards the information to my ruby application. The problem is that hookbox sends a parameter called action, so I assume it would look like this. /hookbox/index?action=connect&user=test, when I ask for the para...