Does the long polling module work with nginx 1.0.6?

Elena Zwetkow ezwetkow at gmx.de
Tue Sep 27 04:52:03 UTC 2011


Hi,

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:10:40 +0200
> Von: Thomas Love <tomlove at gmail.com>
> An: nginx at nginx.org
> Betreff: Re: Does the long polling module work with nginx 1.0.6?

> I put the push module into production for a while a few months ago and
> suffered intermittent segfaults. It also has a couple of design
> limitations that were problematic in my case. It doesn't seem to be
> under active development, so I doubt these issues will be fixed any
> time soon.
> 
> But I wonder whether the module isn't a poor solution architecturally,
> in any case. I eventually dropped it and implemented long-polling in a
> Node.js script. This turned out to be almost trivial -- far faster
> than trying to fix the module. Nginx is set up as a reverse proxy to
> this server, so it's insulated from any bad behaviour. I found the
> stability and ease of maintenance of this design easily worth the
> extra ~50 MB and CPU cycles.
> 
> Cheers
> Thomas
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 26 September 2011 23:14, Ian Hobson <ian at ianhobson.co.uk> wrote:
> > On 26/09/2011 21:58, Thomas Love wrote:
> >>
> >> Are you referring to the push module? (http://pushmodule.slact.net/)
> >>
> >> Thomas
> >>
> > Yes - Version 0.69
> >
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or have a look at wandenbergs nginx-push-module, since version 0.3.0 (master branch) it also support long-polling and polling and its under active develpment.

https://github.com/wandenberg/nginx-push-stream-module

Cheers,

Elena

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