Re: PHP Suspendable requests for Apache

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Rustam Abdullaev <rustamabd@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is anyone working on a suspendable request support in PHP when used as a > module in Apache? > > Suspendable requests are great for supporting Server Push technology, but > are currently only supported in Jetty and Tomcat. > > The API would be extremely simple, for example: > > suspend(string request_id, int timeout); > - this would end the current request but keep the client connection open up > to "timeout" seconds. > > resume(string request_id); > - this would resume a suspended request by starting a new PHP request but > reusing the same client connection that was previously suspended > > > I think there is enough support in Apache 2 APR to make this possible. What > do you guys think? Can you provide some scenario, when this is useful? -- Alexey Zakhlestin http://blog.milkfarmsoft.com/