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    <p>The fact that you're using a web server shouldn't change much about your model. You're still building chat. You also don't want to make your chats tied too deeply to the process that is managing their HTTP connection. HTTP connections are ephemeral, even if everything is going well and you're using long polling there's no guarantee that the connection will be re-used with Keep-Alive for the next long poll. The user might also want to open up the same chat in multiple browser windows, multiple computers, whatever.</p> <p>I haven't looked closely at any of these but you're not the first person that has built web chat with Erlang:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://chrismoos.com/2009/09/28/building-an-erlang-chat-server-with-comet-part-1/" rel="nofollow">http://chrismoos.com/2009/09/28/building-an-erlang-chat-server-with-comet-part-1/</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/31/EugeneLetuchy-ErlangatFacebook.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/31/EugeneLetuchy-ErlangatFacebook.pdf</a></li> <li><a href="http://yoan.dosimple.ch/blog/2008/05/15/" rel="nofollow">http://yoan.dosimple.ch/blog/2008/05/15/</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/yrashk/socket.io-erlang" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/yrashk/socket.io-erlang</a> (more of a general tool for this sort of thing, not chat specifically)</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/rvirding/chat_demo" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/rvirding/chat_demo</a> (as seen above)</li> </ul>
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