Data push implementation
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Long time reader, first time poster here! I'm looking for a suggestion for a solution here that I have either over-thought or I'm not asking the right questions, so much I need a fresh perspective. I wrote a vb.net application. One feature of the program is that it can wait for and parse XML data in order to present certain notifications to the user. I set this up using a FileSystemWatcher on a local directory to keep an eye out for incoming XML files. These XML files (<1K, maybe 1-2 dozen elements) are generated by another vb.net app that watches for text files on a network share. My problem is that I need a simple and effective way to get this data fed to the client over the web. Using the setup I have now, I will have several dozen laptops on different networks and it will be too complicated to get them all on a VPN to watch the same network share waiting to parse text files. I would rather implement a solution that sits on a web server, and the web server pushes data to a client on any network. Like I said, this probably exists and I'm over-analyzing my problem. I'm willing to write it or modify my main vb.net app if it's possible to watch for incoming data from http. It could be a file push, it could be a data stream, feed, whatever. Any input on a simple practical implementation?