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I need guidance on how to show live feeds on my website from a software...All ideas and solutions are highly welcomed....

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: is right that Ajax solves the browser side of live updates, but Ajax alone is just the delivery mechanism. The events your software generates must first be made available to a web server or a push service. Two fundamental choices: have the software push events into a web-accessible place, or have the website pull events from the software.

A practical path:

  1. Make the software send events (HTTP POST JSON to a REST endpoint, write to a DB, or publish to a message broker like Redis/RabbitMQ). If changing the software is impossible, read its logs or watch DB changes with a small agent.
  2. Serve those events to browsers. Simple option: Ajax polling to an endpoint that returns only events since a given timestamp/ID. Lower-latency options: Server-Sent Events for uni-directional streams (Server-Sent Events) or WebSockets for full duplex (WebSocket). Use a small push process (Node.js, a PHP WebSocket lib, or a broker bridge) to broadcast incoming events to connected clients.
  3. Add auth, TLS, CORS and rate limiting. Log incoming events immediately for debugging.

Troubleshooting checklist: confirm the software actually POSTs events (curl), inspect server logs, verify timestamps/sequence numbers, check CORS and firewall/NAT, and ensure any load balancer supports sticky sessions or a pub/sub bridge for WebSockets. For a quick working prototype, POST+Ajax polling is easiest; move to SSE/WebSockets when low latency or scale becomes necessary.

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I think the easiest way is to go the ajax way,
this can collect things from the server and show them on the webpage dynamicly without refreshing the page

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Thanx for giving me a hint...If am going to use Ajax then how can i link the events happening on the software to my website...

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