A little surprised and disappointed. Does really no one have any input on
this subject? How many subscribers are on this list?

Help - please....

Thanks,
Juergen

On 3/10/03 2:14 PM, "Juergen Schreck" <lists_at_innernine.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've come across a problem with curl/php I can't solve by myself. I hope
> it's possible to solve with libcurl or curl:
>
> I've written a PHP app that serves as a proxy to another web-driven system.
> All of the remote communication is handled via CURL. For file-downloads I
> have to call a cgi which return data using this content type:
>
> Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary="something"
>
> The use this to report progress. The remote system 'packages' multiple files
> into a single archives. The last part of the multipart content is the actual
> archive.
>
> With smaller archives there is no problem because the remote system creates
> it so fast that the file comes down in the first call to the cgi. But with
> bigger archives, libcurl just waits for everything to come in which causes
> browser timeouts on the frontend.
>
> So what are my options?
>
> Can I start streaming results back to the browser more immediately rather
> than caching them first into a string or file on my system? How do I do
> that, including streaming out the headers?
>
> I thought I could build my own queueing system and rather than using
> libcurl, exec curl in the background. I haven't gotten very far with that,
> because as opposed to libcurl I can't make CURL honor the multipart message
> Meaning that CURL will grab the first part of the message and then stop
> again.
>
> So - I'm kinda stuck. Have any of you dealt with this or a similar problem?
> What's the best way to solve this puzzle?
>
> Thanks,
> Juergen
>
>
>
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