BOSH -- Bidirectional Streams Over Synchronous HTTP
About BOSH	English (USA)
A small list for discussion among developers of client and server implementations of bidirectional-streams over synchronous HTTP, a Comet-like technology mainly used as an HTTP binding for Jabber/XMPP communication and defined in XEP-0124 and XEP-0206. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the BOSH Archives.
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