On 4/16/2010 3:37 PM, E R wrote: > I'm interested in adding a Comet capability to a (rather large) > mod-perl application. > > To get around XSS limitations, the Comet service will have the same > host and port as the web service. However, I don't want a large > mod-perl process tied up performing the Comet service. > > Is there a way that a web request can be passed off to another process > without tying up the Apache process? For instance, can the Apache > process pass the file descriptors for the HTTP connection to another > process which would free itself up for handling the next Apache > request?
That should become a goal of event mpm, but right now event's only purpose is to unhook the worker between the requests on keepalive connections.