SimpleTcpConnector, how to use it ?

[Tal Dayan]

Hello,

We are trying to user a pool'less Tomcat 3.2.1 on Windows NT but get an
exception.

The configuration (server.xml) is

        <!-- Normal HTTP -->
        <Connector className="org.apache.tomcat.service.SimpleTcpConnector">
            <Parameter name="handler"
value="org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler" />
            <Parameter name="port"               value="80"     />
            <Parameter name="backlog"            value="500"    />
        </Connector>

And the exception is

2001-03-16 07:40:28 - ContextManager: Error reading request, ignored -
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
onnectionHandler.java:191)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(SimpleTcpEndpoint.java:338
)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:498)

We have never used the SimpleTcpConnector before and our goal is to diagnose
some Tomcat hangs we encounter. We could not find anything in the Tomcat
User Manual about the SimpleTcpConnection so more or less we made up the
above configuration ourselves.

Thanks,

Tal