Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "Server Side Push blocking bug" on Linux

[Ben Laurie <be...@gonzo.ben.algroup.co.uk>]

Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> 
>     This is not exactly a bug, though it is well known. The tacky
>     solution is to use NPH. The cool solution is to use a header
>     returned from the CGI to turn off buffering. I keep meaning to
>     implement this. Perhaps I'll get round to it one day. Someone'll
>     have to do it for Apache 2.0, for sure.
> 
> An even cooler solution is to put a time limit on how long you let
> stuff linger in the CGI buffer.  So if the application sends
> continuously it gets the benefits of buffering, but if the application
> stops sending the data it has already sent gets pushed to the client.
> That's the behavior of the FastCGI module.

Yep. My original proposal was to allow the script to set a timeout and a buffer
size. I'll implement it one day. Honest.

Cheers,

Ben.

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