HTTP Stream support is now Generally Available! 🎉

[ejizba]

Read our blog post for more information and use this thread to discuss!

[ejizba]

Originally posted by @eric-gonzalez-tfs in #97 (comment)

Hi @ejizba, Thank you for the update!

After calling the setup method with enableHttpStream set to true, will await request.formData() take advantage of the streaming request functionality?

The blog post suggests using request.body but is request.formData just as good? Thanks!

[ejizba]

@eric-gonzalez-tfs I believe it should, but I'll have to whip up some sample code and get back to you on this

[ejizba]

@eric-gonzalez-tfs yes you can stream with formData! 🎉 Here is my sample function. The full code is on the "form" branch of our sample http stream repo here. I modified the streamRequest scenario to use a form, so you can follow the instructions in the README for that scenario if you want to try it out

Ironically I had way more difficulty sending the form as a stream. You could theoretically use any tool (curl, browser, postman, etc.) but I found a lot of places buffered it in memory instead of streaming. I eventually found a workaround to use in my node.js script to send it (see here).

[eric-gonzalez-tfs]

Thanks for following up with these examples. This is super helpful, including the request itself!

Appreciate your quick responses & consistent support @ejizba 🙏

[ejizba]

Originally posted by @georgal in #97 (comment)

hey everyone,

as @ilyachenko indicates, the streaming works like a charm, but in my scenario only on localhost.
Once running from app service it doesn't stream, instead returns response once the stream is completed.

Is this something anyone witnessed? Is there any way to address the issue? azure configs, specific tier etc?

Thanks in advance!

[ejizba]

Hi @georgal can you give more details about your scenario? For example can you share sample code or your app name using these instructions to do it privately. You hopefully shouldn't need a specific tier or Azure config

[georgal]

Follow up here,

Problem is related to client firewall blockers.
New release works good!

Thanks 👍

[ejizba]

Awesome, glad you got it figured out!