Re: Luasocket http module, pumps and coroutines

[gary ng <garyng2000@...>]

I believe you need the COCO patch or just try luajit,
I asked similar question not long ago about the
"attempts to yield across metamethod".


--- Ignacio Burgueño <ignaciob@inconcertcc.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone. I'm posting this question in behalf of
> a co-worker.
> We've a webserver based heavily on Xavante, using
> wsapi. On certain http 
> requests, we want to issue another http request to a
> different server, 
> and send that response back. The thing is that we
> need to send the 
> response by chunks, i.e. we get a chunk from the
> other server, process 
> it, send it back to the client, get another chunk,
> etc.
> So, we are using socket.http.
> http.response{ blah, blah, theSink }
> 
> theSink returns a function to be used as a pump.
> each time luasocket 
> gets some data, it calls that function. However, we
> need to yield there 
> (that's the way wsapi works) but we can't because
> the pump is called by 
> a metamethod.
> 
> Is there a workaround available besides not using
> socket.http and 
> issuing the request by hand?
> I thought of giving coxpcall a try, but I think that
> it solves a 
> completely different problem.
> 
> Regards,
> Ignacio Burgueño
> 
> 
> 



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