On September 20, 2011 5:13 , Henrik Strand <henrik.str...@axis.com> wrote:
I would like to send an infinite data stream from a non-HTTPD external
process via HTTPD to the client connection. Both HTTP and HTTPS must be
supported.
Dw.'s solution is a good one, especially if the external process you are
talking about is not a child process spawned by httpd.
In the special but very common case where the external process is a
child process spawned by httpd, then the easiest solution is to have
that process send its data to httpd (it's parent process) via STDOUT --
in other words, simply output the data as you normally would in any CGI
script or other active content.
To explicitly answer other questions:
- Yes, httpd supports sending "infinite" amounts of data as long as
output is sent at least as often as the value of the TimeOut directive
(see https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#timeout ) and as
long as the client (web browser, end user) does not close the connection
by pressing the Stop button or by doing something else.
- Anything that works via HTTP should also work via HTTPS, as far as I
know, including Dw's solution.
--
Mark Montague
m...@catseye.org
