Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "Server-side-pushes don't work." on Solaris 2.x (fwd)

[Cliff Skolnick <cl...@organic.com>]

I thought the list would get a kick out of this.  This guy asked a simple 
question and I happened to read his email right after he sent it :)

--
Cliff Skolnick                                      cliff@organic.com

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

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Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 14:32:01 -0700
From: Garrett D'Amore <ga...@qualcomm.com>
To: Cliff Skolnick <cl...@organic.com>
Cc: garrett@qualcomm.com
Subject: Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "Server-side-pushes don't work." on Solaris 2.x 


I want to thank you very much for your expeditious reply.  Turn around of
20 minutes is amazing, particularly compared to support given to customers
of commercial HTTP servers (no names, but I'm sure you can guess... :^)
Anyway, this did work for us, and I feel somewhat stupid for not thinking
of trying an nph- script.  Doh!

Btw, I am currently fighting installation of the Netscape server (it is
missing some features) and am recommending that we continue to use Apache.
The one argument that has been made time and again is the "lack of support"
for non-commercial products.  I intend to use the example of your quick
reply to take the wind out of some of the sails of both my managers and the
Netscape sales people. :^)

    -- Garrett.

On Thu, 2 May 1996 12:48:26 -0700 (PDT)  Cliff Skolnick wrote:

> 
> You can avoid this by using nph scripts.  Otherwise you get buffered.
> 
> On Thu, 2 May 1996 garrett@qualcomm.com wrote:
> 
> > Submitter: garrett@qualcomm.com
> > Operating system: Solaris 2.x, version: 
> > Version of Apache Used: 1.0.3
> > Extra Modules used: dbm_auth
> > URL exhibiting problem: 
> > 
> > Symptoms:
> > --
> > The server is buffering up all data in a
> > content-type: multipart/x-mixed-replace header
> > (or any other header, multipart or not), so server
> > side pushes don't work.  This breaks things at
> > our site.
> > 
> > It would be nice to have a way to avoid server
> > buffering and/or server parsing of the CGI headers,
> > allowing the CGI script to just send its output
> > directly to the client, when it wished.
> > 
> > Alternatively, a way to "flush" the buffer midway
> > through the CGI script's output is needed.
> > 
> > 	-- Garrett.
> > 
> > --
> > 
> > Backtrace:
> > --
> > 
> > --
> > 
> 
> --
> Cliff Skolnick                                      cliff@organic.com
> 
> "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
>