Not sure I understand all details here - but chunking seems like a better solution than sending a bad Content-Length.
Sending a too large or incorrect content-length may break a lot of things ( and be rejected, affect proxies, etc ). Costin On 6/16/06, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Remy Maucherat wrote: > Filip Hanik - Dev Lists wrote: >> yes, but to do so, you would be required to pre calculate the content >> length for the 2 (or N events), and if the server hasn't responded >> (since its async) you can't send the 2nd event as you could start a >> new HTTP request on the same connection when there hasn't been a >> response. So to open your self up for async push for both client and >> server, you omit content length, or set it to an extremely large value. >> >> see where I am getting it? > > Yes, I do. > > Comet "designers" got the idea too (most likely they want to work > somewhat with proxies), and so Comet must use chunking on input (as > any decent HTTP user agent would do automagically) and output (Tomcat > will do it automagically too). This way it works without breaking the > protocol and without having to compute the total length of the > request/response beforehand. Of course, you can have easy testing of > the code by using (fake) large content-length values like I did, but > that's for local testing only. how can tomcat know the Content-Length down to the client, when servlets and JSP call flushBuffer, or the response(s) are two big to fit in the buffer? At that point, its up to the servlet programmer to send the content length, but again, how would they know in advance the size of the total response, so chunking becomes difficult Filip > > Rémy > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Filip Hanik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
