[Seaside] HTTP server streaming (was My progress with Seaside...)

[Avi Bryant]

On Jan 5, 2006, at 2:10 AM, Janko Mivšek wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Streaming on a HTTP 1.1 servers is a bit more difficult than on old  
> 1.0 ones because a TCP connection stays open during many HTTP  
> requests. To know when each request ends, it must therefore report  
> an exact length and this is the reason why we need the entire  
> response in advance before sending to a client.
>
> But there is also a solution around: see HTTP 1.1 standard http:// 
> www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt, section 3.6 Transfer Codings. It  
> seems that "chunked" transfer coding enables streaming!

Yes, and in fact if you look at the version of Swazoo-HTTP on  
SqueakMap you'll see that I started some work to support chunked  
encoding, but I've never really put all the pieces together...

Avi