My understanding is that I should *not* close the servlet input/output streams (if you don't open them - you shouldn't close them)
But what if I have wrapped those streams inside other streams that I want to close? Let's say I have several layers of object streams, cipher streams, compression streams, etc. Will it be ok to call close on the outer-most stream, or do I need to rely on the 'flush' and 'finish' methods on these wrapping streams. What about the potential for memory leaks - or is that mostly just an issue on the inner-most stream that actually does the physical I/O? Thank you for taking the time to read this email.
