Ah! That makes sense now! Thanks a lot for taking the time to explain this to me; I know nothing about the underlying protocols!
Later, Dan. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 12:08 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: multiple request handling > > > > Ah! So what happens if your servlet takes a more than a few seconds > > between accepting the request and issueing the response? Will the > > browser display the first page it receives, and then then > overwrite it > > with each subsequant page it receives? > > Ok. I think you need to think about this a bit: > > When you make a request this is what happens in terms of sockets. > > tcp connection > user(browser) --------------------------> servlet > > > If you make a request to the servlet and then press the refresh > button before the servlet can respond then the browser simply throws > away it's end of the original TCP connection, thus you never see the > response from the first request. > > You could see both responses if you opened another window for the > second response. > > > Clearly there is a one to one mapping between a browser window and a > TCP connection. > > Therefore HTTP requests are always displayed in sequence, with the > last request you made being the one that is shown. > > > With HTTP/1.0 tcp connections are the same as HTTP connections, with > HTTP/1.1 there is an abstraction where many HTTP connections can share > a single TCP connection but the above still holds. > > > Nic Ferrier > > ______________________________________________________________ > _____________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
