[99s-extend] timeout in cowboy loop handler

[akonsu]

thanks for your help. suppose that I want to stream live audio. I do not
know how long my audio program will be, and as I stream it, if I have a
timeout, the server will just disconnect the user that listens to the audio
in the browser. and the browser won't reconnect. Would you suggest the
"right" way to implement something like that? Would infinite timeout
suffice? or is it a bad practice? another type of handler maybe?


2013/10/15 Loïc Hoguin <essen at ninenines.eu>

> Yep. And it will also disconnect if the client sends too much. It has to
> disconnect and reconnect eventually, there's no way around it.
>
>
> On 10/16/2013 05:03 AM, akonsu wrote:
>
>> so it will disconnect if the client only listens and sends nothing to
>> the socket, correct?
>>
>>
>> 2013/10/15 Loïc Hoguin <essen at ninenines.eu <mailto:essen at ninenines.eu>>
>>
>>
>>     The socket connected to the client.
>>
>>     TCP isn't perfect, there is no way to be 100% sure the client is
>>     still connected, hence the timeout. If the client is still up you
>>     should make it reconnect.
>>
>>
>>     On 10/16/2013 04:55 AM, akonsu wrote:
>>
>>         Hello,
>>
>>         the documentation for `init` at
>>         http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/__**cowboy/HEAD/manual/cowboy___**
>> loop_handler<http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/__cowboy/HEAD/manual/cowboy___loop_handler>
>>
>>         <http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/**cowboy/HEAD/manual/cowboy_**
>> loop_handler<http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/HEAD/manual/cowboy_loop_handler>
>> >
>>         says:
>>
>>         The receive loop will run for a duration of up to Timeout
>>         milliseconds
>>         after it last received data from the socket, at which point it
>>         will stop
>>         and send a 204 No Content reply.
>>
>>         What socket does it refer to? I had an impression that the loop
>>         handles
>>         erlang messages. Do these messages come through a socket (sorry
>>         about a
>>         trivial question, but I am new to erlang), and this is the
>>         socket that
>>         the docs talk about?
>>
>>         The reason why I am asking is because I used to have a Timeout
>>         of 60000,
>>         and even though messages kept coming non stop, it still kept
>>         disconnecting after a minute, until I set Timeout to infinity.
>>
>>         thanks
>>         Konstantin
>>
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