Detecting "Connection reset by peer"

[Rob Tanner <rt...@linfield.edu>]

I need to know if the client browser is still actively awaiting a 
response from the servlet or whether the users has pressed "stop", 
clicked on someother link, etc.

With class PrintWriter (so the manual says), after attempting to send 
data, a call to checxkError() should return "true" if the client has 
stopped the request.  But it's not working that way.

According to Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Ed. (Jason Hunter, published 
by O'Reilly), p 159, the server is not required to throw an IOException 
of set PrintWriter's error flag after the client disconnects, and 
apparentlt that's what's happening to me.

I am running Tomcat 3.2.4 under Apache on Linux.  Is this something 
configurable?  It's critically important that I be able to catch it.

Thanks,
Rob


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  Rob Tanner
  UNIX and Networks Manager
  Linfield College, McMinnville OR
  (503) 434-2558 <rt...@linfield.edu>



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