Nic,
Thanks for your answers. Sounds like a much more hairy solution than
the ones I try to avoid :).
I suppose I can just point the tested product to
"http://hostname:portnumber/xxx"
and have a 3-liner ServerSocket Java program listen on "portnumber" and shut
the connection.
Cheers,
--Amos
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nic Ferrier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 8:35 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Shutdown of connection
>
>
> >>> Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 25-Jun-00 5:17:27 PM
> >>>
>
> >We want this test because we discovered by accident that
> >our product will loop on 97% CPU when it tries to connect to
> >a server and the server immieidetly shuts the connection down
> >(familiar problem to anyone who ever writen some system-level
> >server stuff, already fixed). Since our phylosophy is to turn
> >each bug into a (automatic) test case we want to add this to
> >our regression tests.
>
> I see... I think you're wrong but I can see where you're coming
> from.
>
>
> >I'd suspect that a non-HTTP servlet might help to circumnavigate
> >around the automatic handling of HTTP connections, but I don't
> >see how can I setup such a servlet, if at all.
>
> No. That's not possible. Servlets have no life of their own - a
> container is everything to them.
>
> There is only one non-HTTP implementation of the API that I am aware
> of and that is the Apache James project (a Mail implementation using
> Servlets). It wouldn't be of any use to you.
>
>
> >Any ideas?
>
> What you want to do MUST be performed by the container. You need to
> get the source for a container and adapt it to shut the connection
> down instead of responding (possibly on the basis of the requestpath
> or something).
>
> If I did want to do this I would get Jserv, Jigsaw or GNU-Paperclips
> and alter the source code to do what I wanted.
>
> You would need to run the container stand alone as anything hanging
> off a webserver might be subject to the webserver responding for it.
>
>
> I think this is the *only* way you're going to be able to do it.
>
> (I still think you're crazy though /8-)
>
>
> Nic
>
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