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Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:16:17 +0100
From: "Andrew Clegg" <andrew.clegg@gmail.com>
To: "users@cxf.apache.org" <users@cxf.apache.org>
Subject: Sending XML comments to keep connection alive
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Afternoon all,

I've just seen some interesting behaviour from a web service provided
by some of my collaborators in Switzerland -- don't know what stack
(or even language) they use. Their service does some pretty intensive
data analysis and can accept quite big queries. It starts by sending
the HTTP response headers, and then while it's chugging away on the
actual query, sends:

<!-- processing -->

every few seconds until the actual results are ready to send.

This seems like quite a good way to avoid timeouts. Can CXF do anything similar?

Cheers,

Andrew.