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bdarnell / streaming.py
Created January 11, 2015 21:23
Demo of streaming requests with Tornado
"""Demo of streaming requests with Tornado.
This script features a client using AsyncHTTPClient's body_producer
feature to slowly produce a large request body, and two server
handlers to receive this body (one is a proxy that forwards to the
other, also using body_producer).
It also demonstrates flow control: if --client_delay is smaller than
--server_delay, the client will eventually be suspended to allow the
server to catch up. You can see this in the logs, as the "client