Hey! Here I am.....
<pause to bite tongue to avoid flamewar>
I can confirm that I didn't send this post out twice, but in fact that the sun
mailserver has re-posted at least one message (mine) to the list. Presumably
this means that others have suffered the same fate.
Thanks again Nic for your incredibly detailed response to my original question,
and thanks Milt for recognizing the snafu.
-Tim
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, you wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, SHEDDE, RAJESH wrote:
>
> > Is this some kind of a joke ????
> >
> > The exact same question was posted by the same person on 6/16/2000 . There were
> > 3-4 responses to it too. A very detailed
> > response by Nic Ferrier included. And now again 6 days later the question is
> > re-posted as a fresh question. It would be advisable not to indulge
> > in such practices. What is likely to happen is your name/email id would be added
> > to a personal ignore list and future questions
> > would go unanswered.
> [ ... ]
>
> Hold on a sec -- you recognize that it is the exact same question
> posted by the exact same person -- doesn't it seem strange to you that
> they would do that intentionally? Could possibly something else have
> caused this to happen? In fact, if you check the headers, you'll see
> that it was the exact same post. Basically, it looks very much like
> there was some kind of glitch on the mailing list server on Sun's end
> that sent out a bunch of messages again. And this is not the first
> time this has happened. Hopefully this won't last long, because it is
> annoying, but there haven't been much indications lately that someone
> from Sun is following this list (e.g. there's the bounced messages
> from bad addresses that get sent out in reply whenever someone posts
> to the list).
>
>
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > We're using a servlet to log web accesses. Basically our servlet is called
> > via an image tag in the following sequence:
> > 1) The arguments passed to the servlet are pulled out of the request
> > object.
> > 2) The ServletOutputStream is opened
> > 3) An image is output to the ServletOutputStream
> > 4) The ServletOutputStream is closed
> > 5) The arguments are processed by our servlet and logged to a database.
> >
> > The servlet is coded in such a way that the processing before the image is
> > output and the outputstream is closed is minimal. I'd think that the servlet
> > *should* return a response very quickly. Due to the fact that it's taking a
> > long time, I'm wondering what closes the connection to an end-user's web
> > browser. I'm inclined to think that ServletOutputStream.close() doesn't do it.
> > If not, how can we speed this up and still get our processing done?
> >
> > In order to close the connection to a browser as fast as possible, do we have
> > to set the ServletResponse object == null or something to force it to go out of
> > scope?
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> >
> > -Tim
> >
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