[Seaside] Zinc - Twitter - Streaming API - Long lived connections

[Davorin Rusevljan]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Igor Stasenko <siguctua at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my little project (SCouchDB), i also had to deal with same situation:
>  - a couchDB server API using a long-lived connection(s) to notify
> observers about database updates,
> which can be used for replication of data or watching for updates etc.
>
> So, the idea is to not wait till all data will arrive upon HTTP
> request, but answer a stream (which represents a contents),
> once http response header is arrived. Then user code may request
> #contents, which will force stream to read all data upon
> connection is closed (or up to content length, if it specified), or
> user may consume data in portions by using a #next /#next: messages to
> stream.
>
> This is useful also for cases, when amount of data to transfer is big,
> so you don't collect it into a huge buffer and only then hanging over
> to user,
> but you letting a user to process data in portions, once it arrives via
> wire.
>
>

Did you use Zinc in SCouchDB, or you were working with plain sockets?

thanks,

Davorin
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