Thoughts on fetching data from iRev cgi's (in chunks)

[Michael Kann]

David,

Are you doing this on the on-rev server?

--- On Sun, 4/11/10, David Bovill <david at vaudevillecourt.tv> wrote:

> From: David Bovill <david at vaudevillecourt.tv>
> Subject: Thoughts on fetching data from iRev cgi's (in chunks)
> To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Date: Sunday, April 11, 2010, 6:28 AM
> What would be the best strategy for
> fetching a series of pieces of data from
> a url call to display the text first and then when ready
> the images or
> larger binary data?
> 
> What I'd (naively) like to do is:
> 
>    1. Call the cgi  - possibly without
> using load url
>    2. The CGI returns the text data
>    3. After returning the text data the cgi
> goes and fetches the binary data
>    - say a dozen or so images and stores
> them on the server
>    4. Another call to the cgi (or a related
> cgi) returns the binary data if
>    it has been loaded or "still loading" if
> it has not fetched all the images
>    yet. (could be a load url call and only
> return the image data)
> 
> At the moment I've been looping through the images and
> using load url call
> for each one - the logic on the client side gets quite
> messy on the client
> side and there are often hunreds of url calls going off
> everywhere, also
> there are cases where I'd like the server to do the asynch
> work, and not the
> client. Does anyone have any thoughts on a good strategy
> for incrementally
> fetching web data like this down to the client? Some fuzzy
> questions:
> 
>    1. Is it possible to get a cgi to return
> data first and still go on and
>    do work afterwords (like fetch and cache
> the images on the server)
>    2. Any possible uses of Cron jobs here -
> has anyone scripted cron jobs
>    from Rev?
>    3. What sort of things have people done
> with delayed action calls in iRev
>    - is ti possible to use send in time or
> the equivalents?
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