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require 'em-http'
EventMachine.run {
http = EM::HttpRequest.new("http://127.0.0.1:8000/").get
puts 'starting...'
buffer = ""
http.stream do |chunk|
buffer += chunk
while line = buffer.slice!(/.+\r?\n/)
puts line
end
puts '...'
end
}
// Text streaming using node.js and http streaming
// Original source is from http://blog.new-bamboo.co.uk/2009/12/7/real-time-online-activity-monitor-example-with-node-js-and-websocket
var sys = require('sys')
var filename = process.ARGV[2];
if (!filename)
return sys.puts("Usage: node textstreaming.js filename");
var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
var tail = spawn("tail", ["-f", filename]);
sys.puts("start tailing");
tail.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
sys.puts(data);
});
var http = require("http");
http.createServer(function(req,res){
res.writeHead(200,{"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
tail.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
res.write(data);
});
}).listen(8000, "127.0.0.1");
console.log("Server running at http://127.0.0.1")
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