On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 16:27, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m guessing that, contrary to the docs, there is a default timeout in > continuous mode, and I’ll have to add something like “&timeout=9999999999” > to the URL to defeat this? > (This is the 1.1.1 CouchBase Server Community Edition, on Mac OS X 10.6.7.) > —Jens > [1] http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/HTTP_database_API#Changes
You don't want to have an insanely long timeout because then, in the absence of changes, it's impossible to detect that the receiver is gone. You should use the heartbeat parameter instead and make sure whatever client code you use can tolerate the blank new lines.
