From: Phlip <phlipcpp@...>
Date: 2005-09-11T04:01:31+09:00
Subject: Webrick streaming bodies

Rubies:

Ogle this Webrick GET handler:

  def do_GET(req, res)
    res["content-type"] = "text/plain"
    res.body = "Hello, world.\n"
  end

That string "Hello, world.\n" is much shorter than typical web page 
contents.

The longer the string assigned to response.body, the tackier this situation. 
Ideally, the handler would prep the HTTP headers, then would pass a stream 
into my application code. That would push bytes into the stream, and the 
stream would push them out the raw TCP/IP ports synchronously.

(I'm also not talking about arbitary efficiency. Application code to push 
data into a stream is much cleaner than code that assembles a huge 
string...)

So is there some way to plug a real or virtual stream into the .body member? 
Some of the documentation seems to imply there's a way...

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  Phlip
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