[DGD] DGD http daemon?

[Josh Dady]

On Feb 8, 2005, at 6:29 PM, Joakim Romland wrote:

> Either way, you can do some trickery with the xmlHttp object that is
> available in most browsers these days. But as always with HTTP, you
> need to do polling to get new state. Although, if you have support for
> keep-alive sessions in your httpd you poll through the same connection
> all the time (if you poll more often than the timeout is set to that
> is).

If the server response is multipart/mixed, it can send the next part 
whenever it wants (without you asking for it first; search 
httpd.apache.org for non-parsed headers).  The problem then becomes one 
of your packets, instead of the server's; is it valid HTTP to send a 
multipart/mixed request and start getting packets of the 
multipart/mixed response before you've completed your request?  I don't 
know, but I doubt it.  Even if it is valid, how many proxies do you 
think have a smoke test on that behavior?

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Joshua P. Dady
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