[Zope] Keep Alive Connection

Troy Farrell troy@entheossoft.com
Sun, 18 May 2003 18:04:27 -0500


TCP with your own protocol.  You would use the python socket module.

Troy

Matt Ficken wrote:
> What should I use instead of HTTP for persistent connections?
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> ----- 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
> 
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>>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.
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>>It was not for that reason!
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>>HTTP/1.1 allows the server to close a connection at any time.
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>> > ...
>> > Is there a different way I can keep connections alive without locking up Zope or using all the system's CPU cycles?
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>>Do not use HTTP when your application needs persistent connections.
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>>
>>Dieter
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