Introduce Suspendable Requests to the Event MPM.
Using this basic framework, you can return SUSPENDED from an HTTP Handler, and then register a callback that is invoked by the MPM at a later time. This initial version only supports _timers_ as callbacks, but in the future I would like to add things like wait for socket activity, on a socket specified by the handler. Once in a callback, It is then the responsibility of the callback fucntion to finish the HTTP Request handling, but this alows you to do cool things like a fully async proxy, COMET support, or even rate limiting. To prove I'm not insane, I've inlcuded an example module, mod_dialup. You can configure it like this: <Location "/docs"> ModemStandard "V.32" </Location> And for static files inside that path, you will be rate limited to V.32 speeds, aka 9.6 kilobits/second. Does anyone besides Rüdiger read commit emails :-) ? I know there are likely huge problems with this, but I would like to see how far we can push the Event MPM, fig...
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