Is it possible to return more than one segment per request?

[ethielknd]

Hi

(Maybe this is more backend side related but I'm learning so if anyone knows I appreciate it)
I'd like to know if it's possible return from backend more than one segment per request

Looking into DevTools > Network I see a first request for segment.m3u8 and then one request per segment:
segment.m3u8
segment0.ts
segment1.ts
...
segmentN.ts

My backend looks like this:

// src/routes/videos.ts -> videosRouter
router.get("/", (_req, res) => {
  const folderPath = path.join(process.cwd(), "videos", "segment.m3u8"); // /path/to/project/videos/segment.m3u8
  const fileExists = fs.existsSync(folderPath);

  if (!fileExists) {
    return res.status(404).json({ error: "videos folder doesn't exists" });
  }
  fs.readFile(folderPath, (_err, content) => {
    res.writeHead(200, { "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*" });
    return res.end(content, "utf-8");
  });
  return;
});

router.get("/:id", (req, res) => {
  const id = req.params.id;
  const filePath = path.join(process.cwd(), "videos", id);
  const fileExists = fs.existsSync(filePath);

  if (!fileExists) {
    return res
      .status(404)
      .json({ error: `file with id ${id} does not exists` });
  }
  fs.readFile(filePath, (_err, content) => {
    res.writeHead(200, { "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*" });
    return res.end(content, "utf-8");
  });
  return;
});

// index.ts
// ...
app.use("/", videosRouter);
// ...

And client can access to it by http://localhost:3000/
Btw: Backend is also very new to me, so maybe the answer is just right there but I don't know how to make it possible

[robwalch]

A request for a file should only return that file, but maybe what you really want is to keep the connection open and reuse that connection for each response. Maybe a guide like this will help https://www.sohamkamani.com/nodejs/http2/