Thanks Peter
Thats works fine, I'm not using getWriter() as that was just an
example, I forward to a JSP for displaying the error message.
Erik
On 11/11/05, Peter Menzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Erik Eide schrieb:
> Hi
> >
> > I've a small REST web service, I'd like to deploy in Tomcat 5.5.12.
> >
> > When I try and return status code 409 (Conflict) and an error message
> > in the response body for a POST operation, Tomcat seems to overwrite
> > the status code with a 404 (Not Found).
> >
> > If I do not return a response body, the original status code 409 is
> > retained. RFC 2616 seems to suggest that its cool to return a response
> > body with a 409, so I wonder if there is something else I'm doing
> > incorrectly or have forgotten to configure ?
> >
> > Sample:
> >
> > public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
> > response)
> > throws ServletException, IOException {
> > OutputStreamWriter writer = new
> > OutputStreamWriter(response.getOutputStream());
> > writer.write("Entity already exists");
> > response.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_CONFLICT);
> > }
> >
> Try setting the status code before writing to the response.
> Btw: why don't you use response.getWriter()?
> This sends the correct response with body on my tomcat (5.5.12):
>
> public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
> response) throws ServletException {
> try {
> hsrs.setStatus(HttpServletResponse.SC_CONFLICT);
> PrintWriter pw = hsrs.getWriter();
> pw.write("do post has a conflict");
>
> } catch (IOException e) {
> log.severe(e.getMessage());
> }
> }
>
>
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