Add push to your API Pushpin is a proxy server that pins client connections open, making it easy to build realtime API endpoints.

Pushpin consists of four processes: pushpin-connmgr, pushpin-proxy, pushpin-handler, and pushpin (the “runner”). In a basic setup you don’t really need to think about this.

Pushpin is a reverse proxy server that makes it easy to implement WebSocket, HTTP streaming, and HTTP long-polling services. The project is unique among realtime push solutions in that it …

Pushpin is backwards compatible within the same major version number. This means if you want to upgrade to a newer version that has the same major version number (e.g. upgrade from 1.5 …

When Pushpin receives an HTTP request from a client, Pushpin forwards it as-is to the origin server that you specified in the routes file. The origin server then tells Pushpin either to …

Pushpin lets you manipulate the X-Forwarded-For header using instructions specified in the x_forwarded_for and x_forwarded_for_trusted fields in the proxy section of pushpin.conf.

Pushpin monitors the routes file for changes, so you can edit the file and the changes will take effect without a restart. For more more information about configuring Pushpin, see Configuration.

Pushpin’s Generic Realtime Intermediary Protocol (GRIP) enables out-of-band message injection into WebSocket connections. Normally, using GRIP with WebSockets requires a WebSocket …

Examples At this time, all of the examples are written in Python using Django. Headline Realtime updates of a simple object resource, with HTTP streaming, HTTP long-polling, and …

Generic Realtime Intermediary Protocol Introduction The Generic Realtime Intermediary Protocol (“GRIP”) makes it possible for a web service to delegate realtime push behavior to a proxy …