Thanks everybody. Someone suggested commons IO could provide some cool stream APIs, I'll try all recommendations, including asynchronous writes. Cheers!
---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 18:25:45 +0200 > From: a...@ice-sa.com > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: Tomcat download stream gets broken > > André Warnier wrote: > > Gerardo Corro wrote: > >>>>> Trying gmail > >> > > That works. > > Of course, you're going to expect people here to look at 50 lines of code. > > Oh well.. > > > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I have a file download servlet running on Tomcat, the code is > >> > > ... > > > >> > >> However once in a while I get an error that prevents files from being > >> downloaded: > >> > >> > >> DownloadException: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe > >> at > >> org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:366) > >> > > > > That looks to me like the client just went away in the middle of the > > download. > > If so, then you're out of luck, there is nothing you can do to prevent > > that (I mean other than displaying interesting information while the > > download is taking place, so that they don't feel like going away.) > > > > If your point is to avoid the lines in the log, then I guess you could > > just plan for it and catch that exception nicely, and just write in the > > log "damn, he's gone" or something. > > > > Addendum : if your point is to download the contents of a file, and Tomcat > being a really > cool webserver, you may want to have a look at the bottom of this page (or > the equivalent > for your version of Tomcat) : http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/aio.html > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
