From: samba <cooldudevamsee@...>
Date: 2008-09-15T23:37:48+09:00
Subject: Re: webrick proxy server and streaming.

On Sep 15, 7:32 pm, samba <cooldudevam...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I ran webrick proxy server snippet found on webrick.org site. It was
> working fine except with streaming or large files. Rather than handing
> over data to browser as it gets it downloading entire file and then
> flushing entire file to client.  Is it possible to webrick to hand
> over data to client as it gets ?, So that streaming and progressive
> loading at client side work as expected ?
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby
> require 'webrick/httpproxy'
>
> s = WEBrick::HTTPProxyServer.new(
>   :Port => 2020,
>   :RequestCallback => Proc.new{|req,res|
>     puts "-"*70
>     puts req.request_line, req.raw_header
>     puts "-"*70
>   }
> )
> trap("INT"){ s.shutdown }
> s.start

BTW you can use youtube for testing streaming behavior.