But if I direct traffic from Apache directly to Twiggy server I'd bypass Catalyst Authentication/Authorization part for Comet session, right? I'd like to allow only authenticated users to subscribe to comet channel. I am sure I am missing some really simple piece of the puzzle :-\
br, Jaro On 28 November 2012 10:56, Tomas Doran <bobtf...@bobtfish.net> wrote: > > On 27 Nov 2012, at 20:11, Jaroslav Zajonc wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'd like to enable my Catalyst based (FastCGI) application to support a > Comet (Long polling) service with help of Twiggy - Pocket.IO (or Stardust > like) server. Now, for my Comet server I still want to use Catalyst app for > Authorization/Authentification and proxy only allowed user to Comet server. > > > > I am really struggling to understand how to achieve that. Actually if > possible, I'd be more than happy to have pure Catalyst app with Comet > support. > > > > My current setup is Apache front-end server with 2nd app-server running > CatalystFastCGI app. I intend to build Comet server on app-server as well. > > > > Any idea how can I achieve that? > > > > Just also run Twiggy, and direct comet traffic to the twiggy instance on > your front end apache.. > > The checking authorisation part for one user will block the server - but > that's ok really, as this is quick (I mean, it's quick in FCGI, right?) and > the comet connections are, by their nature, long lived - so you don't make > too many of them (i.e. there are lots of idle connections - which is why > you're using an async server, but these connections are long lived - the > actual act of connecting is rare). > > Until you have 1000s of concurrent users, you're unlikely to be doing > enough re-connections to notice - and when you are, just balance > connections across multiple copies of Twiggy with mod_proxy_balancer. > > Cheers > t0m > > > _______________________________________________ > List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk > Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst > Searchable archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ > Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ >
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