Designing a persistent asynchronous TCP protocol
- by dogglebones
I have got a collection of web sites that need to send time-sensitive messages to host machines all over my metro area, each on its own generally dynamic IP. Until now, I have been doing this the way of the script kiddie:
Each host machine runs an (s)FTP server, or an HTTP(s) server, and correspondingly has a certain port opened up by its…