multipart-mixed-replace

streaming binary data over http

I am looking into streaming binary data into a browser (through http). I am looking for opinions as to good ways to go about doing this. Ultimately I will have a real time data source and I would like to manipulate this data and display it (in real-ish time) in a browser. Firefox comes first, IE would be nice... but I'm not that picky. I...

Does multipart/x-mixed-replace wait for client requests?

I'm trying to figure out if it's possible to slow down the server when it's sending multipart/xmixed-replace responses. I want my client to try to rate limit a motion jpeg stream. I've found a lot of documentation about what the server sends in an HTTP response but nothing about what the client sends. What does the client send, if any...

Using Twisted's twisted.web classes, how do I flush my outgoing buffers?

I've made a simple http server using Twisted, which sends the Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace header. I'm using this to test an http client which I want to set up to accept a long-term stream. The problem that has arisen is that my client request hangs until the http.Request calls self.finish(), then it receives all multipart do...