RE: Asynchronous calls

["Mike Krebs" <mkrebs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, Karl, what do you mean asynchronous calls? A little better explanation
will get you a better answer.

If you mean something like what is described on this page...
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/031124.htm
HTTPAPI can certainly be used to do this.

If you mean, in general, some of the ideas like this...
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&arti
cleId=79698&pageNumber=5
It is my opinion that it would take significant work to extend HTTPAPI to do
this.

If you mean to simply spawn off separate jobs for each request, that isn't a
function of HTTPAPI, but should work depending on what each request is doing
and how it is coded.

Many of us are using HTTPAPI to retrieve information that is saved into a
file and retrieved from client applications using that file. This is a
simple form of asynchronous retrieval like that described in the 15seconds
article.

Mike Krebs


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