problems reading servlet input stream

[Frank Biederich <fb...@Adobe.COM>]

Hi -

i've experienced problems with the new http connector class
(org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpAdapter) trying to read the servlet
input stream. The process is waiting for more bytes to come but all of
them had already been read!?

The older one (org.apache.tomcat.server.HttpServerConnector) took care
about the 'Content-Length' header (in
org.apache.tomcat.server.ConnectionHandler) which works fine in my
scenario:

    public void run() {
	...
	int contentLength = request.getIntHeader("content-length");

	if (contentLength != -1) {
		BufferedServletInputStream sis =
			(BufferedServletInputStream)request.getInputStream();
		sis.setLimit(contentLength);
	}
	...
    }

Any reasons why this code is not included in
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.java? 

Best, Frank