How can I stream a response from WCF without buffering?

Question

I have a restful (webHttpBinding) self-hosted WCF service. Most methods are returning xml or json version of objects to the client.

I have a couple of GET methods that t

Answer 1

Just trick the browser into thinking there is an HTML response with the Multipart Content-Type

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_2_Multipart.html

I have used this for quite a few things including MJPEG but you can also use it for COMET / WebSocket like responses.