Take for example a web client that reaches out to a web service and displays periodic up-to-the minute stock price updates without the user having to submit additional requests.
What is this technique called? Once I know what it is called, I can search for it.
This is called API consumption.
There are multiple ways and methods that this happens:
The web service might be a RESTful API over HTTP(s).
WebSockets uses the TCP protocol.
XHR = AJAX = XHttpRequest.
Not sure if this helped....
I read an article about possibly the first use of this the other day which lead to this which turned up the term Comet which has links to many other articles about the technique.
Hope that helps.
