2009/12/15 André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> > On another level, I don't quite understand yet how this squares with the > fact that most browsers will not establish more than 2 connections with the > same webserver at the same time. It seems a bit difficult to imagine that > one single user can "crash" a Tomcat just by repeatedly hitting the same > link. > > As far as the browser's concerned, clicking a link while a request is pending cancels the previous request (and generally closes the socket) and opens a new one. So it only has one connection open at any one time.
As far as Tomcat's concerned - as shown by the recent emails on the topic - there's no way of detecting that closed socket and stopping its thread from trying to service it. So old requests build up, unwanted but impossible to discard until they complete or try to write something to the (closed) socket. - Peter
