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   <H1>[99s-extend] how to send a message to all connections in cowboy</H1>
    <B>Lo&#239;c Hoguin</B> 
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    <I>Mon Sep 16 19:06:32 CEST 2013</I>
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<PRE>On 09/16/2013 03:50 PM, akonsu wrote:
&gt;<i> Hello,
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> this is somewhat similar to what someone else has asked:
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://lists.ninenines.eu:81/archives/extend/2013-August/000224.html">http://lists.ninenines.eu:81/archives/extend/2013-August/000224.html</A>
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</I>&gt;<i> I am new to cowboy, I have a process that runs alongside a cowboy server
</I>&gt;<i> and this process needs to periodically send text to all http clients
</I>&gt;<i> connected to the cowboy server. My goal is to have a streaming
</I>&gt;<i> connection for each http client so that I could stream text to them from
</I>&gt;<i> my process. how is this done?
</I>
Same answer really. You need some kind of process registry, like gproc 
properties for example, that will store all Pids and allow you to send a 
message to all of them.

On init, register the process, and then handle the incoming message when 
it arrives.

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