Hi The Servlet servers to execute any SQL and writes result back, so the request maybe a very complicated SQL, that is why the POST method should be used, because there is a limitation of the GET method on the length of request.
And it is possible that clients access the Servlet very frequently, so try to re use the same HttpURLConnection or Socket connection will reduce the response time. Since Connection: Keep-Alive header is available in HTTP 1.1, which means it supports long connection, so it should be possible to keep the Socket connection or HttpURLConnection open, and send multiple requests using it. I tested using the Socket to send standard HTTP headers, it was the same. here is the testing code using Socket: Socket st = new Socket("localhost", 8080); st.setKeepAlive(true); OutputStream out = st.getOutputStream(); BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out)); InputStream is = null; BufferedReader reader = null; String l = null; writer.write("GET /test/echo?sql=abc HTTP/1.1\r\n"); writer.write("Host:localhost\r\n"); writer.write("Connection:Keep-Alive\r\n"); writer.write("\r\n"); writer.flush(); is = st.getInputStream(); reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is)); l = null; while((l = reader.readLine())!= null){ System.out.println("" + l); } System.out.println("\n Sleep 3 seconds"); Thread.sleep(3000); writer.write("GET /test/echo?sql=def HTTP/1.1\r\n"); writer.write("Host:localhost\r\n"); writer.write("Connection:Keep-Alive\r\n"); writer.write("\r\n"); writer.flush(); while((l = reader.readLine())!= null){ System.out.println("" + l); } st.close(); --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java EE (J2EE) Programming with Passion!" group. To post to this group, send email to java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/java-ee-j2ee-programming-with-passion?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---