-> >I occasionally speculate about possible changes to Quixote that would
-> >make it possible to return a response a bit at a time.  This would be
-> >especially nice when the back-end computation takes some time, and
-> >yields incremental results.  It would have to be optional, because it
-> >would screw up Quixote's nice exception handling.  Neil usually tells me
-> >to stop worrying, hardware is getting faster and cheaper all the time,
-> >etc.
->
-> Another case where it would be nice is not related to computation times and
-> hardware speed, but to user feedback when a server process is inherently
-> long lived.
->
-> When I have a process, server side, that takes a certain time to complete,
-> and all the while returns gradual feedback about its completion status, it
-> is important to timely show that feedback to the user.

This requires specific integration with the Web server, and isn't something
that Quixote can handle; you need to get direct access to the output socket.

It *is* possible in most Web servers, though.

--titus