Andy,

Just curious ... are you using the ServletOutputStream or PrintWriter to
pump
data out to the client?

Conrad

"Andrew C. Oliver" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a servlet question.  I'm shocked I've never run into this before,
> but I'm writing a servlet which will serve binary files while limiting
> them to 5 connections.  As each user comes in he's given a lock, and as
> the file finished, his lock is released.  (I also have a "wait" timer in
> between writes but that is another story).
>
> The problem is that if the user breaks his connection, the lock isn't
> released for a really long time.  The reason being is that the servlet
> is blocked on writing to the Response output stream.  Is there any way
> to program or configure around this such that there is a timeout perhaps
> or some way to fail out of writing to the output stream in a reasonable
> amount of time (a couple of minutes maybe)?
>
> -Andy
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