Mongrel users - Mar 2007 - Streaming content

Hello

I''m attempting to write a mongrel plug-in which would stream a
response.

At first I was doing this

  def process(request, response)
    response.start do |head,out|
      head[''Content-Type''] = ''text/html''
      %w{o m g}.each { |c|  out.puts c; sleep 5; }
    end
    response.done = true
  end

But then I looked at HttpResponse and decided that this probably isn''t
sending anything to the socket while I''m in the OMG loop:

    def start(status=200, finalize=false)
      @status = status.to_i
      yield @header, @body
      finished if finalize
    end

So I thought using HttpResponse#write might work -

  def process(request, response)
    %w{o m g}.each { |c| response.write(c); sleep 5; }
    response.done = true
  end

but that also didn''t work. How can I stream content?

THANKS!

If attempting to circumvent a web server''s writing procedures, be sure
to send the HTTP headers yourself!

(i''m an idiot)

thanks for listening,
ry


On 3/26/07, Ry Dahl <ry at tinyclouds.org> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I''m attempting to write a mongrel plug-in which would stream a
response.
>
> At first I was doing this
>
>   def process(request, response)
>     response.start do |head,out|
>       head[''Content-Type''] =
''text/html''
>       %w{o m g}.each { |c|  out.puts c; sleep 5; }
>     end
>     response.done = true
>   end
>
> But then I looked at HttpResponse and decided that this probably
isn''t
> sending anything to the socket while I''m in the OMG loop:
>
>     def start(status=200, finalize=false)
>       @status = status.to_i
>       yield @header, @body
>       finished if finalize
>     end
>
> So I thought using HttpResponse#write might work -
>
>   def process(request, response)
>     %w{o m g}.each { |c| response.write(c); sleep 5; }
>     response.done = true
>   end
>
> but that also didn''t work. How can I stream content?
>
> THANKS!
>

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