Recently I have been trying to create an instant messenger for no more than 10-15 people to use. So far I have gotten it to work using a static server with multiple clients using an SQL database to store user information. The problem is that for an client to receive messages they must port forward - and this is a very big problem for me. I have been reading quite abit and I think that a constant connection needs to be established between the client and server, but I do not know how to do this - the farthest I got was just sending on a constant connection. So what I need to know is how to create a constant link between the server and clients and detect with the client if information is incomming. I am sorry if this is hard to understand I am quite perplexed at the moment 
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If you need me to post any of the source of clarify please ask.
Thanks, mirunit
.If you need me to post any of the source of clarify please ask.
Thanks, mirunit
