On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:37 PM, E R <pc88m...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
It's possible to pass off file descriptors, but then how would you send more data to the client? My suggestion would be to write a module for whatever frontend server you use that holds the connection open and polls mod_perl (or a file or database or something that mod_perl writes to). - Perrin
