[Zope-dev] Streaming?

Terry Kerr terry@adroit.net
Mon, 30 Oct 2000 12:48:53 +1100


That is not streaming.  That is just as you said..lack of bandwidth delaying
the entire page arriving at once at you browser.  That is not contolled.  The
server doesn't send it 'bit by bit' in a controlled manner.

terry


Lalo Martins wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:23:36PM +1100, Terry Kerr wrote:
> > Isn't that dependant on the protocol u are using to transfer the data?
> > HTTP can't do streaming.  You can sort of do streaming using the
> > experimental multipart content type, but IE browers don't recognise it,
> > so it is pretty useless.
>
> What are you talking about? Try to load any standard html page
> with a very slow connection. If you just send the data slowly,
> the browser will show it as it is received. That's streaming.
>
> You can point an mp3 or realaudio player at an URL and it will
> download the file and play it as it arrives.
>
> That's the kind of streaming I want to do.
>
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