Content auto update

Happening In supports the auto-update of content in your user stream. You need not to refresh the page, posts and comments to posts will be automatically refreshed in your screen.

Both Notifications and Messages icons at the top bar will periodically query Happening In, and will display a red icon on top of themselves with the number of unread new notifications and messages in real-time.

The technology used for the auto-updates is WebSockets.

WebSocket is a web technology providing for bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket. The WebSocket API is being standardized by the W3C, and the WebSocket protocol has been standardized by the IETF as RFC 6455.