On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:41 -0500, Stephen More wrote: > I see in version 4 there will be "HttpCore NIO extensions - event > driven, non-blocking I/O". > When this is released can it be used to create the client side of a > "multipart/x-mixed-replace" message ? >
There have already been a number of public releases of HttpCore http://hc.apache.org/news.html > An example might be a HTTP Chat application. Individual POSTs could > handle sending In new messages, while 1 GET connection would stay open > to get all Outgoing messages for the entire session. > > Will something like this be possible ? > Yes, something like that could be possible, but you would basically end up abusing HTTP protocol for something it was never intended for. HTTP is essentially a stateless, request/response oriented protocol. It was never designed for something like chat applications. Oleg > -Thanks > Steve More > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]