Hi Esmond
You are correct. As I recently found out Tomcat and Java is not causing
this explicitly, as I first thought. So there is no 'bug' to be fixed.
But I believe there is an elegant way to refuse further connections when
under load by turning off just the 'accepting' of new connections, and
causing the client to see a 'connection refused' instead of allowing new
connections, accepting requests and then resetting connections with a
'connection reset', preventing the client from a clean failover for
non-idempotent requests. Apache HttpComponents/NIO library already
supports this, so its something that Tomcat too can support if the
community thinks it would be useful.
cheers
asankha
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Asankha C. Perera
AdroitLogic, http://adroitlogic.org
http://esbmagic.blogspot.com
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