Re: Post request with gcj and tomcat

[Christophe Roux <ch_roux at club-internet dot fr>]

Le Lundi 17 Juin 2002 20:49, vous avez écrit :
> I contacted Anthony Green about a problem with servlet using tomcat and
> gcj. As it seems it can interest the community, I send this mail.
> My goal is simple : I want to send a POST Http request from one servlet to
> an other.
> I developed two small servlets M1 and M2 in order to test why it does not
> work so easily.
> The M1 servlet wait for the second M2 which never answers.
> After a few investigations it appears that the
> piece of the puzzle is gnu.gcj.protocol.http.Connection.
> Reading it, I found something strange : it is as if the class uses a
> ServerSocket for doing it's buziness; it starts with writing the header of
> the
> request, then tries to "getHttpHeader", then looks for InpuStream and then
> OutputStream.
> In fact, it should first write the header, then wait for a getOutputStream
> and then a getInputStream.
> I am not very easy with Sockets so I do not know how it works, but I think
> options should tell if input is before or after output.
> I hope I can help you to discover what happens.
> Bye
> Christophe Roux
Here is a scenario for the problem

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