ok, if you are using the HTTP protocol, you must know that the server has no responsibility in keeping the connection alive.
Tomcat (Coyote) keeps the connection alive if the Keep-Alive is set, but you can't send raw data up and down the HTTP connection and expect it to work. The data has to be contained within an appropriate HTTP request. But no, I've never seen tomcat not respond to a request, at least it will send down an error code to the client at worst. Filip > -----Original Message----- > From: Wouter Bijlsma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 11:01 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Connection drops with tomcat-based game server (very short > version) > > > Is it possible that tomcat sometimes randomly kills a > request, does not process a request or queues a request > indefinitely, thereby blocking a client that tries to read > back the response to its request? Could this be possible when > a servlet communicates with the clients using only raw data > and InputStreams/OutputStreams? And: is it a good idea to > develop a game server for playing games like chess, chequers > or draughts with tomcat, considering the fact that tomcats > main purpose is to act as web application server using a > strict request-response paradigm. Is it safe to assume that > every request made by a client always yields a proper > response, also when using raw data transfers? Also when > there's a really high volume of requests to a single servlet? > > Don't get me wrong: I do *not* think there's something wrong > with tomcat! As a matter of fact I have really good > experiences with it using it for web applications!! > > Kind Regards, > > Wouter Bijlsma, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
