OTA and the Sming event loop

[pljakobs]

when I start the actual OTA process (in my case otaUpdater->start();) - it seems that the event queue is not being serviced, correct?
I was trying to help remote troubleshoot OTA issues by allowing a client to GET the /info API endpoint in my application, which would provide information about what current firmware is running from what rom partition, how much flash is currently free etc, but it seems that the http request just hangs.
Since I don't see any debug messages either, I assume that the updater just works "heads down" to make sure interruptions don't mess up the flash transfer (which would be understandable)
Am I right with my assumption?