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...a small web frontend for a client to upload files into an existing application. It''s trivial - there will never be more than a (small) handful of concurrent connections, but I need a streaming rack.input for upload progress on files up to 500MB or so. I was planning on using Rainbows! with ThreadSpawn and worker_connections=1, then noticed that unicorn is also listed as having streaming rack.input. While what I''m doing is pretty much the opposite of the unicorn design case, is there any reason in this scenario for me to use Rainbows!, or should I just go with unicorn and enough backend...

Streaming works with Unicorn + Apache. Both with and without deflating. My understanding is that Unicorn + Apache is not a good combination though because Apache does not buffer, and thus Unicorn has no fast client in front. (I don''t know which is the ultimate technical reason Unicorn puts such an emphasis on fast clients, but will do some research about it.) I have seen in