[lug] Web based streaming updates - how to get started?

Wed Jan 22 14:59:10 MST 2003

On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:22 pm, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> I have a project at work where I need to launch an application via a CGI
> script/program and have that application send multiple "status" updates
> back to the script/program.  I've done a modest amount of web
> programming but nothing that makes the CGI program display data, get
> more data, then display the new data over the place where the last data
> was displayed.  I think this is something akin to Push technology.
> Maybe not.  Java is a possibility but I have no experience with Java.
> I'd prefer either a C based solution if possible, and if not, then
> perhaps Perl.
>
> Is there a C library that will take incoming HTTP requests, allow me to
> parse them (similar to CGI.pm) and then send the results back (probably
> just formatted HTML using printf's if this C program is running as a CGI
> script, I would think).  And how can I get the output to refresh the
> browser with each 'status" update I get from the launched application?

Also this URL seems informative: 
http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/pushpull.html

Michael