> Tore Eriksson wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > As I found a solution to my problem, I thought I would share it in case
> > someone else comes up against the same issue. The reason for the client
> > not acting on the redirect is that sendRedirect does not send any
> > Content-length header, and the client will then wait for an eventual
> > Content body until the servlet finishes. This could be avoided if the
> > sendRedirect would include "Content-length: 0" in its HTTP headers. I
> > solved my problem by manually constructing the redirect on the
> > HttpServletResponse object ('out' below).
>
> Why don't you just insert "return;" after the first redirect was called?
>
> p
Becuse the doPost code have to keep on running and process more results after
the redirect.
> > Old code:
> >
> > final int PARTIAL_HITS = 25;
> >
> > for (int i = 0; i < hits.length(); i++) {
> >
> > /** Insert into table omitted */
> >
> > if (i == PARTIAL_HITS) {
> > // Intermittant redirect, not acted on until doPost returns
> > out.sendRedirect(resultUrl);
>
> return; // why not terminate the method call here?
>
> > }
> > }
> >
> > if (!out.isCommitted()) {
> > // Final redirect
> > out.sendRedirect(resultUrl);
> > }
> >
> > New code:
> >
> > final int PARTIAL_HITS = 25;
> >
> > for (int i = 0; i < hits.length(); i++) {
> >
> > /** Insert into table omitted */
> >
> > if (i == PARTIAL_HITS) {
> > // Intermittant redirect, acted on immediately
> > out.setHeader("Location", resultUrl);
> > out.setStatus(303);
> > out.setContentLength(0);
> > out.flushBuffer();
> > }
> > }
> >
> > if (!out.isCommitted()) {
> > // Final redirect (if case less than PARTIAL_HITS found)
> > out.sendRedirect(resultUrl);
> > }
> >
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Tore Eriksson [tore.eriksson at po.rd.taisho.co.jp]
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