Hi! I'm looking for an answer to your questions as well, so if you do find a solution on other lists, could you please post it here as well?
Regarding the issue, your proposal wouldn't make for full-duplex as far as I understand since I don't see how the client would be able to send any data on the same connection _after_ getting connected. What are you using on the other end of the pipe (on the client)? Plain HTML? Flash? Java? Something else? Bogdan Vinod Panicker wrote: > Hi, > > We have developed a client-server application where the server needs > to send asynchronous data to the client. Now since we are using > Apache/PHP/MySQL, the client needs to poll the server periodically for > information. > > I was thinking if there was some way to get around this basic > problem. I understand that this is how things are supposed to work, > but it would be just great if i could PUSH data from the server to the > client, using HTTP. > > Since HTTP is a request/response based protocol, Apache would not send > any data to the client asynchronously. So what i was thinking was - > If i tell the server to allow Keep-Alive connections, and increase the > timeout value and max requests, I would effectively have a constant > TCP connection. Now the only problem would be of sending asynchronous > data to the client. Solution? Here goes - If there was some way in > which i could get hold of the file descriptor(socket) that is being > used by apache to write data to the client, then i could, from a PHP > script also send any data to the client using the socket functions of > PHP since i already have the socket with me. > > This would mean that the client doesnt have to poll the server for > data any more... and if the connection does get closed, the client > could reconnect to the server asking for another keep-alive connection. > > Now I know that this is probably the wrong place to put such a query - > maybe the apache list would have been better. But since I'm using PHP > out here, i thought i'd give it a try. > > Does the solution sound very outlandish? Are there any pitfalls? And > finally, how do i get hold of the socket? > > Tx in advance, > Vinod. > _________________________________________________________ > Click below to visit monsterindia.com and review jobs in India or Abroad > http://monsterindia.rediff.com/jobs > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
