POST cgi question - slightly OT

jbv jbv.silences at Club-Internet.fr
Wed Oct 20 06:55:21 EDT 2004


Andre,

Thanks for the tip (and the link), although I'm not planing
to use a browser for the POST, but a Rev standalone in the
following configuration :
standalone -> Rev-cgi -> DB -> Rev-cgi  -> standalone

But after all, it's still HTTP, and I might consider slicing
data in small parts if the total amout becomes really huge...
BTW at which size do data become "huge" ?

Thanks,
JB



>
>
> 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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