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julian37 on May 14, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails

I didn't mean to imply that NodeJS isn't the best fit for the problem at hand. I was just trying to clarify that it doesn't take an asynchronous framework like Node to keep processing a request after the connection is closed.

mike-cardwell on May 14, 2012 [–]

Yeah, even with a simple Perl CGI, all you have to do is close STDOUT if you want the HTTP response to end, but continue processing the request.

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