How to do long polling from iPhone application?

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Published on 2010-04-06T06:02:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/06 8:23 UTC
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I want to create a iPhone chat application and i do not have any experience of socket programming so can u please help me understand How can i do long polling from iPhone application?

Also can NSURLConnection be used for this purpose or we need to use some low level API?

Are there any libraries available for the same?

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