On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 7:31 PM, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 16:33 +0530, Santosh Gangadhar wrote: > > Hi All, > > After doing a few tests, the problem seems not be in http client. After > the > > service (doGet or doPost) method returns, at the back Tomcat does some > > cleanup. As a part of this cleanup, it tries to read out all data coming > in. > > It does not *close* the stream after the service method and therefore the > > http client keeps sending. > > > > What Tomcat does makes perfect sense. Tomcat attempts to read to end of > the request entity in order to ensure the connection can be re-used for > subsequent requests. If the clients keeps on sending data, Tomcat will > keep on reading it. > > > How can this be tackled? Is this a problem with Tomcat? Is this related > to > > Expect: 100 continue? > > > > Please help. > > > > Whatever you are trying to do it looks pretty bizarre to me. You should > probably seriously reconsider your approach. We are trying to push a MJPEG stream to a servlet using chunked encoding. The stream is continuous and the client can send it as long as the servlet needs it. The control of stopping this stream is with the server and hence the client cannot stop it. > > Oleg > > > > > Thanks, > > Santosh. > > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Santosh Gangadhar <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Hi All, > > > In the following code, pushServlet is a servlet that consumes data sent > to > > > it with an upper limit specified by the "mb" parameter. > > > RandomDataInputStream is an InputStream generates some random data with > an > > > upper limit. If acceptMB < sendMB, then httpclient stops sending data, > > > servlet stop receiving and sends response code 200 to http client. If > > > acceptMB > sendMB, then although the servlet stops accepting data and > its > > > thread exits cleanly, the http client does not stop. It remains stuck > at > > > executeMethod(). Further, it seems to retry sending data to pushServlet > > > again but no data is actually received there. > > > > > > Http client code: - > > > http://rafb.net/p/GVNMxd61.html > > > > > > Push servelet code: - > > > http://rafb.net/p/RrXrOx81.html > > > > > > RandomDataInputSteram code: - > > > http://rafb.net/p/wNA9HN92.html > > > > > > > > > There is no retry handler specified here. Specifying a retry handler > that > > > disallows a retry does not work either. Is this a bug? If the receving > end > > > has stopped accepting data and sent the repsonse code, http cleint > should > > > return from the executeMethod() method. > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Santosh. > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Thanks, Santosh.
