Thanks to both of you On Jan 8, 2014 11:08 AM, "Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you, that's a very good point! I'm so used to thinking about > Django in the context of the request/response cycle that I didn't think > about pairing it with a websocket framework to take on that task. > > _Nik > > On 1/8/2014 3:56 AM, Tom Evans wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The reason for this (someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this) is > that > >> Django isn't meant to hold connections indefinitely. Ideally you want > to get > >> a request and turn around a response as quick as possible. Using the > >> nginx-push-stream-module, you let Nginx handle all the persistent > >> connections (which it does very well with 10k+ connections). > >> > > I wouldn't say "wrong".... > > > > Django provides WSGI connection adapters and a framework for handling > > HTTP requests. These adapters and framework are great at handling > > regular HTTP requests. > > > > However, Django is not *just* a WSGI connection adapter and a HTTP > > framework, it is a python library for doing all kinds of things. You > > can take any python websocket implementation and do things "in django" > > with it - use your models, access your cache, render templates, create > > and validate forms, etc - because django is simply another library you > > can use whenever you are programming in python. > > > > Cheers > > > > Tom > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/vZQ3C4DS73g/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/52CD77F6.1000807%40consbio.org > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAO2PNV4vO3%3D%2B5ynTbTc8GaYdVV_7Uh4tHwO6A2OV_Mt4H9%2Bnzw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
