tomcat 3.2.3 is not http 1.1..
Mvgr,
Martin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Daney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:48 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Content-Length limited to 2^31-1???
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>
> The problem I am having is that tomcat 3.2.3 seems to (kind of) limit
> content length to Integer.MAX_VALUE (2^31-1 or 2GB).
>
> If I want to serve very large objects things do not work so well.
>
> I seems that ServletResponse.SetContentLength(int) is the prefered
> manner to sent the content length of a servlet response and that the
> default implemtation for the "HEAD" method in HttpServlet also is
> limited to the range of int values.
>
> My reading of the HTTP/1.1 spec does not indicate that there are any
> limitations to content length in the HTTP protocol.
>
> So my question is: Am I all messed up, or is Tomcat and the servlet
> spec/implementation sub-optimal?
>
> David Daney
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