> On May 18, 2020, at 7:45 PM, Miguel Manso <mma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > Ive a Perl client that fetched some data every 3 seconds and post it to an > API. Both client and server are written using mojo. Client uses > Mojo::UserAgent to post JSON and server is a Mojolicious app being served > with hypnotoad. > > I can have dozens of these clients which mean that each of them will be > posting data and receiving from the server every 3 secs. I can easily do this > using basic post calls but I wonder if there is a better way to achieve the > same? Something like keeping connections opened for a period of time while > sending and receiving data through the same connection? > > Ive seen websockets info but it seems it’s allways oriented to the client > being in JavaScript. > > Any thoughts on the subject?
We’ve had great success deploying WebSocket in lieu of TCP for server-to-server communication. You harness the routing that a web framework like Mojo does for you--so no futzing with firewalls and the like--but you still get the real-time communication that a raw TCP socket would give you. There’s a CLI utility called “websocat” that basically functions as “netcat for WebSocket”, if that’s of use to you. An alternative technology, if you only need a server-to-client stream, is Server-Sent Events (SSE). It’s basically an open-ended HTTP response, with the client parsing each chunk of that response as it arrives. Most browsers support it via the EventStream object, and I suspect it’d be pretty straightforward to rig up a Mojo SSE client, too. It’s a bit simpler, too, since it follows HTTP semantics. Not as robust, though, as it lacks the close status mechanism that WebSocket provides. (The server basically has to wait until it sees EPIPE/SIGPIPE to know that the client has stopped listening.) -FG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Mojolicious" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mojolicious+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mojolicious/B7BB55F8-9810-440B-9F79-919A1B664D05%40felipegasper.com.
