> the best way is to first show a confirmation screen ( are you sure kinda > thingy ) .....
How do we do this? There won't be any output stream to write to. > > and hey list .... > > is there a way to check if the client has a connection or he/she has closed > the connection using the stop button ..... > > Yes. Trying to write to the output stream would return an IOException. I could write a white space in a separate thread every few seconds and if an exception occurs, I stop processing. Neela > -----Original Message----- > From: Neel Narayan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 08 October 2002 00:10 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Clients that disconnect after inovking a servlet > > > What should be the servlet behavior when clients close the connection after > invoking a servlet? I ask this question more from the perspective of the > "right way to handle it" as opposed to the Servlet specification. > > Let's say a client has invoked a servlet that opens a DB transaction and > then hits the stop button on the browser. This causes the connection to end. > The user intent here is to prevent the transaction from happening - but the > servlet of course does not know this and commits the transaction and will > realize that the connection is broken when it's time to respond. > > How is this problem typically handled? Should I continuously check to see if > the connection is alive? > > Please comment. > > Thanks, > Neela > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
