I apologize if this question has been asked before, but I could not find the question in this list.
My client makes what I call long running servlet request. By that what I mean is that the client makes a servlet request and the server keeps the ServletOutputStream open for a long time. I use this connection so that the server can send periodic data down to the client. This has been working quite well. I did not need for the client to send additional data after the initial servlet request so I was closing its output stream after I made the request and the servlet did not use its corresponding ServletInputStream. Any new data from the client to the server was sent over a new "short" servlet request. Now I have the need for the client to send some additional data to the server, and I would really prefer to send the data over the same connection to the long running servlet. I changed my request code to keep the output stream open and send data over it. I get no error doing this. But on the server side, the long running servlet tries to read the ServletInputStream and it does not get any data. What am I doing wrong? Is this not supported? Sincerely, Tosh
