How does Salesforce streaming API perform long polling?

<div data-md=”61″ lang=”en-IN”><div aria-level=”3″ role=”heading” data-attrid=”wa:/description” data-hveid=”CAwQAQ”>This is done using a push protocol called the Bayeux protocol.

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