Re: Can HttpCore NIO extensions support client side of Server push using multipart/x-mixed-replace

[Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>]

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:41 -0500, Stephen More wrote:
> I see in version 4 there will be "HttpCore NIO extensions - event
> driven, non-blocking I/O".
> When this is released can it be used to create the client side of a
> "multipart/x-mixed-replace" message ?
> 

There have already been a number of public releases of HttpCore

http://hc.apache.org/news.html

> An example might be a HTTP Chat application. Individual POSTs could
> handle sending In new messages, while 1 GET connection would stay open
> to get all Outgoing messages for the entire session.
> 
> Will something like this be possible ?
> 

Yes, something like that could be possible, but you would basically end
up abusing HTTP protocol for something it was never intended for. HTTP
is essentially a stateless, request/response oriented protocol. It was
never designed for something like chat applications.

Oleg 


> -Thanks
> Steve More
> 





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