Re: Which Real Time Communications Protocol

Thanks to both of you

On Jan 8, 2014 11:08 AM, "Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar" <nik.molnar@consbio.org> wrote:

Thank you, that's a very good point! I'm so used to thinking about
Django in the context of the request/response cycle that I didn't think
about pairing it with a websocket framework to take on that task.

_Nik

On 1/8/2014 3:56 AM, Tom Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Nikolas Stevenson-Molnar
> <nik.molnar@consbio.org> wrote:
>> The reason for this (someone please correct me if I'm wrong on this) is that
>> Django isn't meant to hold connections indefinitely. Ideally you want to get
>> a request and turn around a response as quick as possible. Using the
>> nginx-push-stream-module, you let Nginx handle all the persistent
>> connections (which it does very well with 10k+ connections).
>>
> I wouldn't say "wrong"....
>
> Django provides WSGI connection adapters and a framework for handling
> HTTP requests. These adapters and framework are great at handling
> regular HTTP requests.
>
> However, Django is not *just* a WSGI connection adapter and a HTTP
> framework, it is a python library for doing all kinds of things. You
> can take any python websocket implementation and do things "in django"
> with it - use your models, access your cache, render templates, create
> and validate forms, etc - because django is simply another library you
> can use whenever you are programming in python.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>

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