[Seaside] My progress with Seaside...

[Avi Bryant]

On Jan 5, 2006, at 10:45 AM, Avi Bryant wrote:

>
> On Jan 5, 2006, at 8:53 AM, Cees De Groot wrote:
>
>> On 1/5/06, Jeremy Shute <shutej at crazilocks.com> wrote:
>>> Which basically means I can't use Seaside any further on this  
>>> project.  :-(
>>
>> .. or hope for/implement a quick chunked-transfer-encoding hack...
>
> ... or even do without Keep-Alive and use HTTP 1.0 streaming (there  
> seem to be problems with Keep-Alive and reverse proxying anyway).
>
> Tell you what, I should have some time late tonight or tomorrow to  
> try to hack some kind of proof of concept of a fully streaming  
> Seaside, so that you can at least see if it makes a difference...

Ok, I promised a hack and a hack it is, but...

1. Make sure you have FastSocketStream loaded from SqueakMap
2. Load http://squeaksource.com/Seaside/Seaside2.6a2-avi.77.mcz
3. WAListener startOn: 8081

Now try accessing your app from 8081 instead of 8080 or whatever  
usual port you use.  Notes:

- This doesn't do Keep-Alive or chunked encoding; it uses HTTP 1.0,  
not 1.1
- WAListener largely bypasses Comanche (using it only to parse the  
HttpRequest), so there's much less there in terms of error handling  
or configurability
- It WILL NOT WORK if you use a WATask subclass
- I can't measure or perceive a performance benefit on localhost,  
though I *can* see the difference if I use telnet to simulate an HTTP  
request.  I have yet to do any testing with remote servers.

I'm curious to see if this makes a difference for anyone.

Cheers,
Avi