Me thinks you do not understand HTTP. And I'm not sure what you mean by the "'right way to handle it' as opposed to the Servlet specification." Is there a difference?
Anyhoo, the standard method of not committing a confirmed transaction is called a "rollback" and it's available from both your JDBC driver and your database (I think even MySQL supports transactions now), but this has nothing to do with the Servlet specification. You need something like White, et al, "JDBC API Tutorial and Reference, 2d ed.," (Addison Wesley 1999). Although dated, it remains an invaluable desktop reference. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Neel Narayan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 7:10 PM 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
