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Small demo app using Node.Js/Socket.IO/MongoDB/D3.Js and jQuery.
/**
 * socket.io
 * Copyright(c) 2011 LearnBoost <dev@learnboost.com>
 * MIT Licensed
 */

(function (exports, io, global) {

  /**
   * Expose constructor.
   *
   * @api public
   */

  exports.XHR = XHR;

  /**
   * XHR constructor
   *
   * @costructor
   * @api public
   */

  function XHR (socket) {
    if (!socket) return;

    io.Transport.apply(this, arguments);
    this.sendBuffer = [];
  };

  /**
   * Inherits from Transport.
   */

  io.util.inherit(XHR, io.Transport);

  /**
   * Establish a connection
   *
   * @returns {Transport}
   * @api public
   */

  XHR.prototype.open = function () {
    this.socket.setBuffer(false);
    this.onOpen();
    this.get();

    // we need to make sure the request succeeds since we have no indication
    // whether the request opened or not until it succeeded.
    this.setCloseTimeout();

    return this;
  };

  /**
   * Check if we need to send data to the Socket.IO server, if we have data in our
   * buffer we encode it and forward it to the `post` method.
   *
   * @api private
   */

  XHR.prototype.payload = function (payload) {
    var msgs = [];

    for (var i = 0, l = payload.length; i < l; i++) {
      msgs.push(io.parser.encodePacket(payload[i]));
    }

    this.send(io.parser.encodePayload(msgs));
  };

  /**
   * Send data to the Socket.IO server.
   *
   * @param data The message
   * @returns {Transport}
   * @api public
   */

  XHR.prototype.send = function (data) {
    this.post(data);
    return this;
  };

  /**
   * Posts a encoded message to the Socket.IO server.
   *
   * @param {String} data A encoded message.
   * @api private
   */

  function empty () { };

  XHR.prototype.post = function (data) {
    var self = this;
    this.socket.setBuffer(true);

    function stateChange () {
      if (this.readyState == 4) {
        this.onreadystatechange = empty;
        self.posting = false;

        if (this.status == 200){
          self.socket.setBuffer(false);
        } else {
          self.onClose();
        }
      }
    }

    function onload () {
      this.onload = empty;
      self.socket.setBuffer(false);
    };

    this.sendXHR = this.request('POST');

    if (global.XDomainRequest && this.sendXHR instanceof XDomainRequest) {
      this.sendXHR.onload = this.sendXHR.onerror = onload;
    } else {
      this.sendXHR.onreadystatechange = stateChange;
    }

    this.sendXHR.send(data);
  };

  /**
   * Disconnects the established `XHR` connection.
   *
   * @returns {Transport}
   * @api public
   */

  XHR.prototype.close = function () {
    this.onClose();
    return this;
  };

  /**
   * Generates a configured XHR request
   *
   * @param {String} url The url that needs to be requested.
   * @param {String} method The method the request should use.
   * @returns {XMLHttpRequest}
   * @api private
   */

  XHR.prototype.request = function (method) {
    var req = io.util.request(this.socket.isXDomain())
      , query = io.util.query(this.socket.options.query, 't=' + +new Date);

    req.open(method || 'GET', this.prepareUrl() + query, true);

    if (method == 'POST') {
      try {
        if (req.setRequestHeader) {
          req.setRequestHeader('Content-type', 'text/plain;charset=UTF-8');
        } else {
          // XDomainRequest
          req.contentType = 'text/plain';
        }
      } catch (e) {}
    }

    return req;
  };

  /**
   * Returns the scheme to use for the transport URLs.
   *
   * @api private
   */

  XHR.prototype.scheme = function () {
    return this.socket.options.secure ? 'https' : 'http';
  };

  /**
   * Check if the XHR transports are supported
   *
   * @param {Boolean} xdomain Check if we support cross domain requests.
   * @returns {Boolean}
   * @api public
   */

  XHR.check = function (socket, xdomain) {
    try {
      var request = io.util.request(xdomain),
          usesXDomReq = (global.XDomainRequest && request instanceof XDomainRequest),
          socketProtocol = (socket && socket.options && socket.options.secure ? 'https:' : 'http:'),
          isXProtocol = (global.location && socketProtocol != global.location.protocol);
      if (request && !(usesXDomReq && isXProtocol)) {
        return true;
      }
    } catch(e) {}

    return false;
  };

  /**
   * Check if the XHR transport supports cross domain requests.
   *
   * @returns {Boolean}
   * @api public
   */

  XHR.xdomainCheck = function (socket) {
    return XHR.check(socket, true);
  };

})(
    'undefined' != typeof io ? io.Transport : module.exports
  , 'undefined' != typeof io ? io : module.parent.exports
  , this
);

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