On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Benoit Chesneau<[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/7/5 Chris Anderson <[email protected]>: > >> This looks really cool. Can you give more examples of it at work? I'm >> not sure I total understand. Looks powerful. >> > > > Main use for this is is proxying remote http services like an XMPP > bosh connection, or any ajax service that don't do JSONP. Obviously > couchapps will have some usage for this. Indeed, with this proxy, you > could aggregate different services on your pages and use them without > worrying about cross-domain problem. > > All you have to proxy a service is to set a local path and destination > path like this : > > [httpd_global_handlers] > _couchdb = {couch_httpd_proxy_handler, handle_proxy_req, > <<"http://couchdb.apache.org";>>} > _friendpaste = {couch_httpd_proxy_handler, handle_proxy_req, > <<"http://friendpaste.com";>>} > > > and now you could do use friendpaste api from your application. (which > won't be needed soon, but that's another story). > > > Right now the request body isn't streamed and I would like to have a > way to send it whil receiving it. Maybe it's not possible but I failed > for now to understand how mochiweb api works with it. >
I've heard you can just connect the raw sockets together and it works... not sure how that would look in practice. > Hope it's more understandable now :) > > - benoît > -- Chris Anderson http://jchrisa.net http://couch.io
