Hi
There was a feature introduced in 6.0.19 to not swallow the inputStream if the servlet throws an exception and the connection is going to be closed. Without this, Tomcat drains the inputStream, so for example If you're uploading a large file it ties up the thread until input is drained - which could be ages. I've not been able to get this feature working. My servlet sets the response status to SC_REQUEST_ENTITY_TOO_LARGE which Tomcat recognises it should drop the connection for, but the Http11Processor.java code doesn't set the error flag which controls whether or not the inputStream is swallowed. The Http11Processor.java line of code in question in the 6.0.20 code set is 855. This line checks the value of keepAlive is true before setting the error flag which controls whether or not input is swallowed. keepAlive has previously been set to false by line 1590 so the error flag is not set. Am I missing something here? Is there a specific way for the servlet to invoke this functionality? Thanks very much Ian
