Communication

Communication features include information on how your application can send data to networks and other applications, and receive data back from them.

The main communication features are:

• HTML5 Web Messaging

  Enables you to send and receive data between Web sites and through a message channel.

• WebSocket

  Enables you to connect to the socket server, and send and receive data.

• XMLHttpRequest Level 1 and 2

  Enables you to use cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) to request and send data of various content types, and to monitor the operation progress.

The following guides apply in mobile applications only:

• Server-Sent Events

  Enables you to exchange push data with the server.