Re: [hybi] Max frame size

[Scott Ferguson <[e-mail]>]

On 06/22/2011 08:35 AM, Francis Brosnan Blazquez wrote:
>
>> I don't see the difference with frames. You can call the application saying
>> "hey, here come 5 GB of data, please read them from this connection handle".
> Ok, the way it should be done, assuming we have a message/frame oriented
> protocol, is that the app level register a handler which is called every
> time a single frame is received.

No. It's like a HTTP chunked POST, where the application receives a 
stream of data, not the underlying HTTP chunks.

A server (or client) which exposes the frames as its primary API is 
doing it wrong.

> This way, the handler is called, for example, each 4k, so the handler
> can receive those 5GB with minimum memory allocation and with the
> security it handles messages not raw access to a file descriptor (with
> the security and code complexity implications it has).

See stdio.h, specifically the FILE methods like fdopen, fread, fgets, 
etc. That's the level of abstraction the application needs to see.

-- Scott

>> Regards,
>> Willy
>>