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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:40:18 +0400
To: "Rustam Abdullaev" <rustamabd@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Suspendable requests for Apache
From: indeyets@gmail.com ("Alexey Zakhlestin")

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Rustam Abdullaev <rustamabd@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone working on a suspendable request support in PHP when used as a
> module in Apache?
>
> Suspendable requests are great for supporting Server Push technology, but
> are currently only supported in Jetty and Tomcat.
>
> The API would be extremely simple, for example:
>
> suspend(string request_id, int timeout);
> - this would end the current request but keep the client connection open up
> to "timeout" seconds.
>
> resume(string request_id);
> - this would resume a suspended request by starting a new PHP request but
> reusing the same client connection that was previously suspended
>
>
> I think there is enough support in Apache 2 APR to make this possible. What
> do you guys think?

Can you provide some scenario, when this is useful?

-- 
Alexey Zakhlestin
http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/