The Streaming API docs say we should avoid opening new connections with the same user:pass when that user already has a connection open. But I'm hoping it is okay to do this every hour or so, here's why:
My plan is to write the streaming XML data to a text file during each connection -- but I don't want this file to get so big that I have trouble processing it on the back end. Therefore I want to rotate these files every hour ... This means I have to stop writing to the file, close it, move it somewhere else, and create a new file so I can use the new file to continue storing new streaming XML data. The obvious way for me to close these files is to close the connection -- by opening a new connection -- because from what I've read it seems that opening a new connection forces the previous connection to close. Can I do this without running into any black listing or denial of service issues? I mean, is this an acceptable way to close a connection ... by opening a new one in order to force the old connection to close? Any info you can provide that will clarify this issue is greatly appreciated, thanks! Owkaye
