Passing streaming of Http response to a web page using node.js

Question

Following up on this question I was wondering is there is a way, without using socket.io, to avoid the buffering of the response that happens on most navigators. So for instance if the node server emit every 5 secondes : 'hello world' i can directly print them on a webpage as soon as the data is available.

Is there a way to do so ?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '12 at 09:19

1

Unfortunately, this is not how web browsers work. If you want this type of functionality without using WebSockets (or a socket.io fallback) you could try with Server-Sent Events. See this gist for an example (in coffeescript). Also, here is a polyfill for older browsers.

answered Mar 22 '12 at 09:19

Linus Thiel

36,497
9
102
98

Thanks for the links linus, i ll invetigate these options and see what ends up fitting best. – silkAdmin Mar 22 '12 at 17:30

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 22 '12 at 16:04

1

Yes, this is doable. This is how comet streaming servers work.

See http://faye.jcoglan.com/ for an example for Node.js.

answered Mar 22 '12 at 16:04

Steve Campbell

3,107
28
40

Thanks this looks a lot like what i would need, are you by anychance aware of a PHP equivalent ? – silkAdmin Mar 22 '12 at 17:26
Not specifically. Googling "php comet server" has a few results, and also turns up this [related question](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/603201/using-comet-with-php). – Steve Campbell Mar 23 '12 at 03:27

Passing streaming of Http response to a web page using node.js

2 Answers2