[Catalyst] Handling long-running processes (was Re: Logging is not immediate)

[Tomas Doran]

On 20 Oct 2010, at 01:48, Toby Corkindale wrote:

> What is support like for either multi-part or partial-update in  
> browsers like now?

Almost everything will now do MXHR.

Have a look at Web::Hippie which abstracts the browser-specifics of  
the actual mechanism away.

However, each user is going to have a persistent connection to the  
server, and if you're running a traditional forked server (e.g. fcgi,  
mod_perl etc) then that can eat a lot of resources for keeping  
(mostly idle) HTTP connections open..

Cheers
t0m