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|  | 4 | </a></small></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Introduction"><strong>Introduction</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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|  | 5 |  | 
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|  | 6 | <p> | 
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|  | 7 | With usage of APR or NIO APIs as the basis of its connectors, Tomcat is | 
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|  | 8 | able to provide a number of extensions over the regular blocking IO | 
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|  | 9 | as provided with support for the Servlet API. | 
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|  | 10 | </p> | 
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|  | 11 |  | 
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|  | 12 | <p> | 
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|  | 13 | <b>IMPORTANT NOTE: Usage of these features requires using the APR or NIO | 
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|  | 14 | HTTP connectors. The classic java.io HTTP connector and the AJP connectors | 
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|  | 15 | do not support them.</b> | 
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|  | 16 | </p> | 
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|  | 17 |  | 
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|  | 18 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Comet support"><strong>Comet support</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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|  | 19 |  | 
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|  | 20 | <p> | 
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|  | 21 | Comet support allows a servlet to process IO aynchronously, recieving | 
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|  | 22 | events when data is available for reading on the connection (rather than | 
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|  | 23 | always using a blocking read), and writing data back on connections | 
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|  | 24 | asychnonously (most likely responding to some event raised from some | 
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|  | 25 | other source). | 
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|  | 26 | </p> | 
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|  | 27 |  | 
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|  | 28 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="CometEvent"><strong>CometEvent</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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|  | 29 |  | 
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|  | 30 | <p> | 
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|  | 31 | Servlets which implement the <code>org.apache.catalina.CometProcessor</code> | 
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|  | 32 | interface will have their event method invoked rather than the usual service | 
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|  | 33 | method, according to the event which occurred. The event object gives | 
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|  | 34 | access to the usual request and response objects, which may be used in the | 
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|  | 35 | usual way. The main difference is that those objects remain valid and fully | 
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|  | 36 | functional at any time between processing of the BEGIN event until processing | 
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|  | 37 | an END or ERROR event. | 
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|  | 38 | The following event types exist: | 
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|  | 39 | </p> | 
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|  | 40 |  | 
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|  | 41 | <ul> | 
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|  | 42 | <li>EventType.BEGIN: will be called at the beginning | 
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|  | 43 | of the processing of the connection. It can be used to initialize any relevant | 
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|  | 44 | fields using the request and response objects. Between the end of the processing | 
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|  | 45 | of this event, and the beginning of the processing of the end or error events, | 
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|  | 46 | it is possible to use the response object to write data on the open connection. | 
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|  | 47 | Note that the response object and depedent OutputStream and Writer are still | 
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|  | 48 | not synchronized, so when they are accessed by multiple threads, | 
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|  | 49 | synchronization is mandatory. After processing the initial event, the request | 
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|  | 50 | is considered to be committed.</li> | 
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|  | 51 | <li>EventType.READ: This indicates that input data is available, and that one read can be made | 
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|  | 52 | without blocking. The available and ready methods of the InputStream or | 
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|  | 53 | Reader may be used to determine if there is a risk of blocking: the servlet | 
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|  | 54 | should read while data is reported available, and can make one additional read | 
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|  | 55 | should read while data is reported available. When encountering a read error, | 
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|  | 56 | the servlet should report it by propagating the exception properly. Throwing | 
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|  | 57 | an exception will cause the error event to be invoked, and the connection | 
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|  | 58 | will be closed. | 
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|  | 59 | Alternately, it is also possible to catch any exception, perform clean up | 
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|  | 60 | on any data structure the servlet may be using, and using the close method | 
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|  | 61 | of the event. It is not allowed to attempt reading data from the request | 
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|  | 62 | object outside of the execution of this method.<br> | 
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|  | 63 | On some platforms, like Windows, a client disconnect is indicated by a READ event. | 
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|  | 64 | Reading from the stream may result in -1, an IOException or an EOFException. | 
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|  | 65 | Make sure you properly handle all these three cases. | 
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|  | 66 | If you don't catch the IOException, Tomcat will instantly invoke your event chain with an ERROR as | 
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|  | 67 | it catches the error for you, and you will be notified of the error at that time. | 
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|  | 68 | </li> | 
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|  | 69 | <li>EventType.END: End may be called to end the processing of the request. Fields that have | 
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|  | 70 | been initialized in the begin method should be reset. After this event has | 
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|  | 71 | been processed, the request and response objects, as well as all their dependent | 
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|  | 72 | objects will be recycled and used to process other requests. End will also be | 
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|  | 73 | called when data is available and the end of file is reached on the request input | 
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|  | 74 | (this usually indicates the client has pipelined a request).</li> | 
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|  | 75 | <li>EventType.ERROR: Error will be called by the container in the case where an IO exception | 
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|  | 76 | or a similar unrecoverable error occurs on the connection. Fields that have | 
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|  | 77 | been initialized in the begin method should be reset. After this event has | 
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|  | 78 | been processed, the request and response objects, as well as all their dependent | 
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|  | 79 | objects will be recycled and used to process other requests.</li> | 
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|  | 80 | </ul> | 
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|  | 81 |  | 
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|  | 82 | <p> | 
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|  | 83 | There are some event subtypes which allow finer processing of events (note: some of these | 
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|  | 84 | events require usage of the org.apache.catalina.valves.CometConnectionManagerValve valve): | 
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|  | 85 | </p> | 
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|  | 86 |  | 
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|  | 87 | <ul> | 
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|  | 88 | <li>EventSubType.TIMEOUT: The connection timed out (sub type of ERROR); note that this ERROR | 
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|  | 89 | type is not fatal, and the connection will not be closed unless the servlet uses the close | 
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|  | 90 | method of the event. | 
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|  | 91 | </li> | 
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|  | 92 | <li>EventSubType.CLIENT_DISCONNECT: The client connection was closed (sub type of ERROR). | 
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|  | 93 | method of the event. | 
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|  | 94 | </li> | 
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|  | 95 | <li>EventSubType.IOEXCEPTION: An IO exception occurred, such as invalid content, for example, | 
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|  | 96 | an invalid chunk block (sub type of ERROR). | 
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|  | 97 | </li> | 
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|  | 98 | <li>EventSubType.WEBAPP_RELOAD: The web application is being reloaded (sub type of END). | 
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|  | 99 | </li> | 
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|  | 100 | <li>EventSubType.SESSION_END: The servlet ended the session (sub type of END). | 
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|  | 101 | </li> | 
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|  | 102 | </ul> | 
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|  | 103 |  | 
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|  | 104 | <p> | 
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|  | 105 | As described above, the typical lifecycle of a Comet request will consist in a series of | 
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|  | 106 | events such as: BEGIN -> READ -> READ -> READ -> ERROR/TIMEOUT. At any time, the servlet | 
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|  | 107 | may end processing of the request by using the close method of the event object. | 
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|  | 108 | </p> | 
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|  | 109 |  | 
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|  | 110 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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|  | 111 |  | 
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|  | 112 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="CometFilter"><strong>CometFilter</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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|  | 113 |  | 
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|  | 114 | <p> | 
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|  | 115 | Similar to regular filters, a filter chain is invoked when comet events are processed. | 
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|  | 116 | These filters should implement the CometFilter interface (which works in the same way as | 
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|  | 117 | the regular Filter interface), and should be declared and mapped in the deployment | 
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|  | 118 | descriptor in the same way as a regular filter. The filter chain when processing an event | 
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|  | 119 | will only include filters which match all the usual mapping rules, and also implement | 
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|  | 120 | the CometFiler interface. | 
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|  | 121 | </p> | 
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|  | 122 |  | 
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|  | 123 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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|  | 124 |  | 
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|  | 125 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Example code"><strong>Example code</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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|  | 126 |  | 
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|  | 127 | <p> | 
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|  | 128 | The following pseudo code servlet implments asynchronous chat functionality using the API | 
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|  | 129 | described above: | 
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|  | 130 | </p> | 
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|  | 131 |  | 
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|  | 132 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre> | 
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|  | 133 | public class ChatServlet | 
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|  | 134 | extends HttpServlet implements CometProcessor { | 
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|  | 135 |  | 
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|  | 136 | protected ArrayList<HttpServletResponse> connections = | 
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|  | 137 | new ArrayList<HttpServletResponse>(); | 
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|  | 138 | protected MessageSender messageSender = null; | 
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|  | 139 |  | 
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|  | 140 | public void init() throws ServletException { | 
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|  | 141 | messageSender = new MessageSender(); | 
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|  | 142 | Thread messageSenderThread = | 
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|  | 143 | new Thread(messageSender, "MessageSender[" + getServletContext().getContextPath() + "]"); | 
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|  | 144 | messageSenderThread.setDaemon(true); | 
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|  | 145 | messageSenderThread.start(); | 
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|  | 146 | } | 
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|  | 147 |  | 
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|  | 148 | public void destroy() { | 
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|  | 149 | connections.clear(); | 
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|  | 150 | messageSender.stop(); | 
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|  | 151 | messageSender = null; | 
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|  | 152 | } | 
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|  | 153 |  | 
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|  | 154 | /** | 
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|  | 155 | * Process the given Comet event. | 
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|  | 156 | * | 
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|  | 157 | * @param event The Comet event that will be processed | 
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|  | 158 | * @throws IOException | 
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|  | 159 | * @throws ServletException | 
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|  | 160 | */ | 
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|  | 161 | public void event(CometEvent event) | 
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|  | 162 | throws IOException, ServletException { | 
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|  | 163 | HttpServletRequest request = event.getHttpServletRequest(); | 
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|  | 164 | HttpServletResponse response = event.getHttpServletResponse(); | 
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|  | 165 | if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.BEGIN) { | 
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|  | 166 | log("Begin for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); | 
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|  | 167 | PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter(); | 
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|  | 168 | writer.println("<!doctype html public \"-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en\">"); | 
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|  | 169 | writer.println("<head><title>JSP Chat</title></head><body bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\">"); | 
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|  | 170 | writer.flush(); | 
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|  | 171 | synchronized(connections) { | 
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|  | 172 | connections.add(response); | 
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|  | 173 | } | 
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|  | 174 | } else if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.ERROR) { | 
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|  | 175 | log("Error for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); | 
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|  | 176 | synchronized(connections) { | 
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|  | 177 | connections.remove(response); | 
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|  | 178 | } | 
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|  | 179 | event.close(); | 
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|  | 180 | } else if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.END) { | 
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|  | 181 | log("End for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); | 
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|  | 182 | synchronized(connections) { | 
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|  | 183 | connections.remove(response); | 
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|  | 184 | } | 
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|  | 185 | PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter(); | 
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|  | 186 | writer.println("</body></html>"); | 
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|  | 187 | event.close(); | 
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|  | 188 | } else if (event.getEventType() == CometEvent.EventType.READ) { | 
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|  | 189 | InputStream is = request.getInputStream(); | 
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|  | 190 | byte[] buf = new byte[512]; | 
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|  | 191 | do { | 
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|  | 192 | int n = is.read(buf); //can throw an IOException | 
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|  | 193 | if (n > 0) { | 
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|  | 194 | log("Read " + n + " bytes: " + new String(buf, 0, n) | 
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|  | 195 | + " for session: " + request.getSession(true).getId()); | 
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|  | 196 | } else if (n < 0) { | 
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|  | 197 | error(event, request, response); | 
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|  | 198 | return; | 
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|  | 199 | } | 
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|  | 200 | } while (is.available() > 0); | 
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|  | 201 | } | 
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|  | 202 | } | 
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|  | 203 |  | 
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|  | 204 | public class MessageSender implements Runnable { | 
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|  | 205 |  | 
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|  | 206 | protected boolean running = true; | 
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|  | 207 | protected ArrayList<String> messages = new ArrayList<String>(); | 
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|  | 208 |  | 
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|  | 209 | public MessageSender() { | 
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|  | 210 | } | 
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|  | 211 |  | 
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|  | 212 | public void stop() { | 
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|  | 213 | running = false; | 
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|  | 214 | } | 
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|  | 215 |  | 
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|  | 216 | /** | 
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|  | 217 | * Add message for sending. | 
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|  | 218 | */ | 
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|  | 219 | public void send(String user, String message) { | 
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|  | 220 | synchronized (messages) { | 
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|  | 221 | messages.add("[" + user + "]: " + message); | 
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|  | 222 | messages.notify(); | 
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|  | 223 | } | 
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|  | 224 | } | 
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|  | 225 |  | 
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|  | 226 | public void run() { | 
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|  | 227 |  | 
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|  | 228 | while (running) { | 
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|  | 229 |  | 
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|  | 230 | if (messages.size() == 0) { | 
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|  | 231 | try { | 
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|  | 232 | synchronized (messages) { | 
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|  | 233 | messages.wait(); | 
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|  | 234 | } | 
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|  | 235 | } catch (InterruptedException e) { | 
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|  | 236 | // Ignore | 
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|  | 237 | } | 
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|  | 238 | } | 
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|  | 239 |  | 
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|  | 240 | synchronized (connections) { | 
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|  | 241 | String[] pendingMessages = null; | 
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|  | 242 | synchronized (messages) { | 
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|  | 243 | pendingMessages = messages.toArray(new String[0]); | 
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|  | 244 | messages.clear(); | 
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|  | 245 | } | 
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|  | 246 | // Send any pending message on all the open connections | 
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|  | 247 | for (int i = 0; i < connections.size(); i++) { | 
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|  | 248 | try { | 
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|  | 249 | PrintWriter writer = connections.get(i).getWriter(); | 
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|  | 250 | for (int j = 0; j < pendingMessages.length; j++) { | 
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|  | 251 | writer.println(pendingMessages[j] + "<br>"); | 
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|  | 252 | } | 
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|  | 253 | writer.flush(); | 
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|  | 254 | } catch (IOException e) { | 
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|  | 255 | log("IOExeption sending message", e); | 
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|  | 256 | } | 
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|  | 257 | } | 
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|  | 258 | } | 
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|  | 259 |  | 
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|  | 260 | } | 
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|  | 261 |  | 
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|  | 262 | } | 
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|  | 263 |  | 
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|  | 264 | } | 
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|  | 265 |  | 
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|  | 266 | } | 
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|  | 267 | </pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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|  | 268 |  | 
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|  | 269 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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|  | 270 | <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Comet timeouts"><strong>Comet timeouts</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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|  | 271 | <p>If you are using the NIO connector, you can set individual timeouts for your different comet connections. | 
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|  | 272 | To set a timeout, simple set a request attribute like the following code shows: | 
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|  | 273 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>CometEvent event.... event.setTimeout(30*1000);</pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> or | 
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|  | 274 | <div align="left"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="4"><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>event.getHttpServletRequest().setAttribute("org.apache.tomcat.comet.timeout", new Integer(30 * 1000));</pre></td><td width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr><tr><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td><td height="1" width="1" bgcolor="#023264"><img border="0" hspace="0" vspace="0" height="1" width="1" src="./images/void.gif"></td></tr></table></div> | 
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|  | 275 | This sets the timeout to 30 seconds. | 
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|  | 276 | Important note, in order to set this timeout, it has to be done on the <code>BEGIN</code> event. | 
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|  | 277 | The default value is <code>soTimeout</code> | 
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|  | 278 | </p> | 
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|  | 279 | <p>If you are using the APR connector, all Comet connections will have the same timeout value. It is <code>soTimeout*50</code> | 
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|  | 280 | </p> | 
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|  | 281 | </blockquote></td></tr></table> | 
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|  | 282 |  | 
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|  | 283 | </blockquote></td></tr></table><table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tr><td bgcolor="#525D76"><font face="arial,helvetica.sanserif" color="#ffffff"><a name="Asynchronous writes"><strong>Asynchronous writes</strong></a></font></td></tr><tr><td><blockquote> | 
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|  | 284 |  | 
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|  | 285 | <p> | 
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|  | 286 | When APR or NIO is enabled, Tomcat supports using sendfile to send large static files. | 
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|  | 287 | These writes, as soon as the system load increases, will be performed | 
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|  | 288 | asynchronously in the most efficient way. Instead of sending a large response using | 
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|  | 289 | blocking writes, it is possible to write content to a static file, and write it | 
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|  | 290 | using a sendfile code. A caching valve could take advantage of this to cache the | 
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|  | 291 | response data in a file rather than store it in memory. Sendfile support is | 
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|  | 292 | available if the request attribute <code>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.support</code> | 
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|  | 293 | is set to <code>Boolean.TRUE</code>. | 
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|  | 294 | </p> | 
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|  | 295 |  | 
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|  | 296 | <p> | 
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|  | 297 | Any servlet can instruct Tomcat to perform a sendfile call by setting the appropriate | 
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|  | 298 | request attributes. It is also necessary to correctly set the content length | 
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|  | 299 | for the response. When using sendfile, it is best to ensure that neither the | 
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|  | 300 | request or response have been wrapped, since as the response body will be sent later | 
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|  | 301 | by the connector itself, it cannot be filtered. Other than setting the 3 needed | 
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|  | 302 | request attributes, the servlet should not send any response data, but it may use | 
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|  | 303 | any method which will result in modifying the response header (like setting cookies). | 
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|  | 304 | </p> | 
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|  | 305 |  | 
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|  | 306 | <ul> | 
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|  | 307 | <li>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.filename: Canonical filename of the file which will be sent as | 
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|  | 308 | a String</li> | 
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|  | 309 | <li>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.start: Start offset as a Long</li> | 
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|  | 310 | <li>org.apache.tomcat.sendfile.end: End offset as a Long</li> | 
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|  | 311 | </ul> | 
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|  | 312 |  | 
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|  | 313 | </blockquote></td></tr></table></td></tr><!--FOOTER SEPARATOR--><tr><td colspan="2"><hr size="1" noshade></td></tr><!--PAGE FOOTER--><tr><td colspan="2"><div align="center"><font size="-1" color="#525D76"><em> | 
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|  | 314 | Copyright © 1999-2008, Apache Software Foundation | 
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|  | 315 | </em></font></div></td></tr></table></body></html> | 
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