Re: [XHR2] Streamed send or receive

Sorry, the API for 2) should read: SendPartialRequest().

On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:57 AM, Wenbo Zhu <wenboz@google.com> wrote:

> I'd like to hear from the WG if the following use cases or issues have been
> discussed before.
>
> 1) When onreadystatechange is invoked as new response data is being
> received, currently there is no way to clear any buffered responseText
> (alike) that has already been consumed. The lack of such a capability will
> force the server to disconnect to avoid memory overflow on the client-side,
> e.g. when the server is streaming a large volume of text or binary data to
> the client.
>
> An example API to solve the above problem could be:
>
> XMLHttpRequest.removeResponseText();      // return and clear any buffered
> response data
>
>
> 2) Currently, request body has to be sent all at once. This is not
> desirable when request data is computed from a streamed data source or from
> user input. The lack of a programmatic way to send partial request data (as
> it is being generated) will force the application to send multiple XHR
> requests. Worse yet, it actually breaks the REST semantics of the target
> resource that processes the "entire" POST body.
>
> A simple API to solve this problem may look like:
>
> XMLHttpRequest.sendPartialRequest(data);
>
> - Wenbo
>
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