If you don't send a Content-Length, then you need to use 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked'. Otherwise Tomcat (or any other HTTP/1.1 server) has no way of knowing when the request body ends, and the next request begins.
"Scott Carr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Does a servlet require the use of a Content-Length for the Reader to be > populated? > > I trying to use Tomcat instead of writing my own Socket Server. I have a > set of lines that I am trying to parse, but I don't have any idea how much > is going to be sent up front. > It may be 1000Kb, or it may be several Megabytes worth of information, and > I want to read each line as they come in, and handle the request on a line > by line basis. > > Any ideas on this? ... Should I write my own socket server? > > Thanks > > -- > Scott Carr > OpenOffice.org > Documentation Co-Lead > http://documentation.openoffice.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
