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   <H1>[99s-extend] timeout in cowboy loop handler</H1>
    <B>Lo&#239;c Hoguin</B> 
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    <I>Wed Oct 16 06:48:05 CEST 2013</I>
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<PRE>Then use a loop handler, set its timeout to infinity *but* create a new 
timeout that checks regularly if the handler is active or not to be able 
to kill it off in case something happens.

On 10/16/2013 06:42 AM, akonsu wrote:
&gt;<i> ok. the data that I need to send are coming as erlang messages to the
</I>&gt;<i> process that runs my handler. so it sounds like if I want to use the
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;normal&quot; cowboy_http_handler, then I need a receive loop
</I>&gt;<i> inside handle(Req, State) callback, right? Basically, my response stream
</I>&gt;<i> will potentially never end, I do not know how to handle this properly in
</I>&gt;<i> cowboy...
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</I>&gt;<i> 2013/10/16 Lo&#239;c Hoguin &lt;<A HREF="https://lists.ninenines.eu/listinfo/extend">essen at ninenines.eu</A> &lt;mailto:<A HREF="https://lists.ninenines.eu/listinfo/extend">essen at ninenines.eu</A>&gt;&gt;
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</I>&gt;<i>     Loop handlers are designed to wait for a long time with the socket
</I>&gt;<i>     *idle* and then eventually send one response then close the socket.
</I>&gt;<i>     Things like long-polling.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i>     What you are doing is just streaming, for which you do not need a
</I>&gt;<i>     timeout because the socket isn't idle. You are just sending a large
</I>&gt;<i>     response, and normal handlers are perfectly capable of doing that.
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