If you want to do long-polling you need an async server, not rocket because wsgi does not support async. Look into web2py/gluon/contrib/ comet_messaging.py
On Jun 12, 5:18 am, Phyo Arkar <phyo.arkarl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello all; > > In my project i have to process files HUGE Gigabyte files . on the server. I > look into websocket but it is still very Experimental Draft , Only > supporting a few browser , and needed Tornado Web Server to do so .. Which > needs to open up another port which is not cool at all (Coz the office of my > clients are Restricted to port 80 and port 443 only , no choice left) . > > Currently my approach for my Comet-Like Ajax Progressbar is to do like this > : > > -Process huge list of file . Every 1000th file , write Progress number to a > file (that is run outside of web2py , called via subprocess module) . > -Web2py ajax controller check_progress() reads that file WHEN Requested from > it's index.html. Like every 3 second (not long polling , and cause a lot of > IO hits . not really good) > > I am wanting to implement a Long Polling comet directly inside Web2py's > Rocket web server and i need pointers, as i am also busy with my project. I > will contribute back ofcoz. > > 1 - Where to look into? > 2 - How hard it is? need to use select() ? > > Please let me know. > > Thanks.
