On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:26:04 +0000
Jeremy Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been doing some experiments with php and if can use something like
>
> <?php
>
> for ($i = 0; $i < 100; $i++) {
> echo "hello world";
> flush();
> sleep(10);
> }
>
> ?>
>
> to keep a http link open for an arbitrary amount of time and
> routinely display "hello world" in the browser window.
>
> Is is possible to write a mongrel handler to do something similar?
Yep, you could probably write a handler to do that, but probably not a rails
action without tons of surgery.
However, this will fall down pretty quick once you hit Ruby's 1024 (or less)
file descriptor limit due to its use of select.
Zed
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