[Twisted-web] streaming request (was: status of Twisted Web and Web 2)

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 15:45:01 -0700, Andrew McNabb <amcnabb at mcnabbs.org> wrote:
>Wow, somehow we got talking about different things without realizing it!
>I wonder how that happened?
>
>If I'm (finally) understanding you correctly, your case is one where we
>are a server and handling a POST request.  In my application, I'm
>dealing with streaming _downloads_, not streaming _uploads_ (i.e., mine
>is client side rather than server side).  My code would look something
>like this:
>
>consumer = MyConsumer()
>http_streaming_download('http://some/big/file', consumer)
>
>Hopefully that makes it clear why it seems like MyConsumer should be a
>straightforward class that implements IConsumer.  In this case, it's
>simply confusing to make the downloader care about HTTP headers, etc.
>
>In your case (processing a POST request), I can understand the need to
>look at HTTP headers, etc., so I agree that you would want something
>more complicated than a simple consumer.
>
>Is there anything I'm still missing?  Thanks!
>

Oh.  Okay.  We're certainly talking about different things.

Jean-Paul