Sorry Jon. Buf.length is the size of the buffer that I want to post. I have confirmed that this is being sent correctly. But as I said earlier, on the server side 8K is the maximum size of this data that is read.
Vikram -----Original Message----- From: Jon Wingfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 March 2006 12:25 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: InputBuffer and Posting Data What is buf.length? Is it the actual length of the data you want to post or is it 8k? The data you receive on the Tomcat side may be truncated by the Connector if the body data is longer than the value set for the Content-Length header. HTH, Jon Vikram Goyal wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to post some data via an applet to a JSP running on Tomcat > 5.5.16. In my applet code, I am setting the following: > > > > postConn.setRequestMethod("POST"); > > > > postConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", (buf.length) + ""); > > > > postConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream"); > > > > Now, on the server side, I am retrieving my actual data by using the > ServletInputStream gathered from request.getInputStream() method. The > connection also contains some query parameters, which I am retrieving on > the server side using request.getParameter(). > > > > Now, irrespective of the size of the data that I post, the > ServletInputStream is truncating the data to a size of 8K (for files > greater than that size, smaller files are the received correctly). I > understand, after going through the source code, that the Request class > uses the InputBuffer class for reading from this stream and the default > size of the buffer for this operation is 8K. However, I would have > expected this buffer to grow, if the data was larger than this default, > but this is not happening. > > > > Is there a setting to increase this buffer automatically that I need to > set? Alternatively, is there a setting that I need to set that will set > the default to a larger value? I have searched and searched and cannot > find anything. > > > > Thanks, > > Vikram > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]