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authorBernard Duggan <[email protected]>2011-02-23 15:55:37 +1100
committerNiclas Axelsson <[email protected]>2011-02-24 17:54:12 +0100
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Modify mod_esi:deliver/2 to accept binary data
This change allows for more efficient delivery of large amounts of data through the mod_esi interface when the handling process has that data in binary format. It avoids the need to convert to list and the extra memory involved in passing that list between processes.
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-rw-r--r--lib/inets/doc/src/mod_esi.xml6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/inets/doc/src/mod_esi.xml b/lib/inets/doc/src/mod_esi.xml
index 3c473d3f94..e063088eb4 100644
--- a/lib/inets/doc/src/mod_esi.xml
+++ b/lib/inets/doc/src/mod_esi.xml
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
<fsummary>Sends Data back to client.</fsummary>
<type>
<v>SessionID = term()</v>
- <v>Data = string() | io_list()</v>
+ <v>Data = string() | io_list() | binary()</v>
<v>Reason = term()</v>
</type>
<desc>
@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@
<note><p>Note
that if any HTTP-header fields should be added by the
script they must be in the first call to deliver/2 and the
- data in the call must be a string. Do not
+ data in the call must be a string. Calls after the headers
+ are complete may contain binary data to reduce copying
+ overhead. Do not
assume anything about the data type of SessionID, the
SessionID must be the value given as input to the esi
call back function that you implemented.</p></note>