POST cgi question - slightly OT

[Andre Garzia]

On Oct 19, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote:

> I don't think you can return more bytes than the number of particles 
> in the universe ;-)
>
> There is always a limit to everything, but I don't think there is any 
> "defined" limit to this.  It really depends more on how much the 
> client can handle -- memory size, scratch space on the disk, 
> bandwidth, etc.
>
>


One trick to return huge data to the browser is to use a Chunked 
Transfer-Encoding this way you can send big data by slicing it in small 
parts and sending it to the browser in small amounts. The browser will 
keep accepting the chunked transfer till it ends, it's better than 
simply piping the whole data. To get a better knowledge of the HTTP 
protocol refer to this really wonderfull text HTTP Made Really Easy 
(http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/), this text is easy to read and 
understand, it saved my life while creating revHTTPd.

Cheers
andre

PS: I never coded chunked transfer encodings, if you do so, please 
share your code!!!! (if I do it first, I'll share mine) =)

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Andre Alves Garzia ð 2004
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