[Zope] Keep Alive Connection

Matt Ficken mattficken@mail.com
Sun, 18 May 2003 16:39:15 -0500


What should I use instead of HTTP for persistent connections?

----- Original Message -----
From: Dieter Maurer <dieter@handshake.de>
Date: Sun, 18 May 2003 23:20:41 +0200
To: "Matt Ficken" <mattficken@mail.com>
Subject: Re: [Zope] Keep Alive Connection

> Matt Ficken wrote at 2003-5-17 13:12 -0500:
>  > My product needs to send data to the client, and then later send the client more data, over the same connection. HTTP/1.1 created Keep-Alive connections for this reason. I tried setting the response header 'Connection' to 'Keep-Alive', but Zope closes the connection anyway.
> 
> It was not for that reason!
> 
> HTTP/1.1 allows the server to close a connection at any time.
> 
>  > ...
>  > Is there a different way I can keep connections alive without locking up Zope or using all the system's CPU cycles?
> 
> Do not use HTTP when your application needs persistent connections.
> 
> 
> Dieter

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