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The new Rack socket hijacking API

by ninh on 1/23/13, 2:37 PM with 6 comments

  • by RyanZAG on 1/23/13, 3:53 PM

    This would scale very badly, correct? If you have to hijack the connection for each client and then spend awhile doing a task (waiting for a task to complete, etc), then your whole webserver thread is going to be sitting there waiting.
  • by zrail on 1/23/13, 7:13 PM

    I wonder if Heroku will add support for this. It'd be pretty nice to be able to just deal with arbitrary sockets there instead of being limited to just HTTP.