[mod_python] ConnectionHandler sigsegv (fwd)

On Thu, 26 Jun 2003, Robert Sanderson wrote:

> However, the connection object is a little too high level ... are there
> plans for implementing a lower level 'socket' like interface, rather than
> a blocking line or character reader?  The mod_perl module has this sort of
> interface for example (AFAICT)
>
> For example, I need to be able to consume all of the data currently
> waiting into one chunk to process ... which may or may not end in a
> linebreak character, can be of arbitrary length and the connection
> doesn't close after sending.  So I can't use either read() or readline(),
> with or without arguments :/

I'm curious what mod_perl folks are doing, I haven't looked at it.

Unless I'm mising something, the only way you can deal with this kind of
data is read a character at a time.

(Or non-blocking IO, but off the top of my head I don't even know if
Apache supports it)

Grisha