On 22 Mar 2010, at 08:46, Ofer Kalisky wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can the Apache web server stream regular files (i.e. not music etc), while 
> they're written, i.e. even if the server reaches EOF it continues to try to 
> read more of it until the client stops?

As in, tail -f $file?

Yes and no.  The default handler will serve the file it sees (cat rather than 
tail).
But a module or script could emulate tail -f.  You'll have some issues to deal 
with,
like waiting forever on a static file, and managing memory.

-- 
Nick Kew
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