Re: modperl and comet?

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:37 PM, E R <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way that a web request can be passed off to another process
> without tying up the Apache process? For instance, can the Apache
> process pass the file descriptors for the HTTP connection to another
> process which would free itself up for handling the next Apache
> request?

It's possible to pass off file descriptors, but then how would you
send more data to the client?

My suggestion would be to write a module for whatever frontend server
you use that holds the connection open and polls mod_perl (or a file
or database or something that mod_perl writes to).

- Perrin