Re: [Cgi-devel] is a request available after a commit?

[Darren G. <lis...@go...>]

On 17 June 2010 02:30, <jc...@ol...> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I often need to do additional stuff once the response to send back to the
> client is ready. Instead of waiting for the additional stuff to be done, I
> thought that I could just commit and then do my additional stuff.
> I am wondering if the request data are still available and if this is a
> good design.
>

Yes this is a perfectly valid use-case.

The request is explicitly closed by commit() and this means you can't read /
write any more data but all of the request information is still available
until you either:

a) call request::clear()
b) accept a new request on a closed request (which internally calls
request::clear())

I've added documenting this to my TODO.

Cheers,
Darren