Dave Cherkassky wrote: > PID, thanks for your insight. > > > Two comments about that: > > 1) I agree with you for includes and forwards, but for errors? I would > have thought that the definition of "error" is that something went > wrong, and Tomcat should start from scratch and just render the error > page. I didn't think of it as really a forward...
It can't start from scratch if you've already written to the output. It would be like sending (pseudo) >>snip>> Status: 200 OK Content-type: image/gif 2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf 2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf 2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf 2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf2020304msf0sfsfs0fsfsf 202004ladidaadidummlovelybytesUrk!CoughSplutterARGHH!Status: 500\n Content-type: text/html\n \n <html> etc <<snip<< The browser wouldn't understand that the new set of headers mid stream actually represents an error. > 2) So you are suggesting that writing out to the > response.getOutputStream() as I go is wrong? If you are not already absolutely certain that the data is good, it's risky at best. > Instead, I need to: > a. buffer my output locally That would work. > b. once I am sure that it can all be created correctly, *then* I write > out the buffer to the response? > > Am I understanding you correctly? Yes. p --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
