WebSocket

[Flauschbaellchen]

It would be nice to have iris support WebSocket (if available, otherwise fall back).
That would drastically improve performance when used with huge amounts of clients.

Are there already any plans to implement this?

[kbuck1]

Websockets would be nice, but they'd be even better added to the ircd instead of iris's backend daemon.

[kbuck1]

It looks like Qwebirc got websocket support in January; with any luck it might be possible to easily port here.

[ariscop]

My branch of iris is currently running over websockets on ponychat, which is using https://github.com/Xe/tomato-cheese/ for the server
Different approach to the Qwebirc code, which i think is using websockets more or less as a backend for long polling