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You only need websockets if you want the communication to be initiated by the server, not the client. Unless I misunderstand, in your case, the client seems to initiate every communication. In that case, Ajax is sufficient and I would advise to stick with what you already know.
You would need websockets if the underlying dataset updates (while the client isn'...
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