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Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 10:24:17 -0500
From: Michael Becke <mbecke@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Asynchronous client-server communication
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Hi Thomas,

This may be difficult to make work since as you mention HTTP is not
meant to be used this way.  Have a look at EntityEnclosingMethod for
how RequestEntities are used
<http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/3.0/xref/org/apache/commons/h=
ttpclient/methods/EntityEnclosingMethod.html#457>
for some ideas.  First off I think using chunked encoding will be a
problem, so you'll want to not use that.  Also, be sure to flush the
output stream when you're done writing.

Mike =20


On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:27:26 +0100, Thomas F=F6rster <ml@thofoer.de> wrote:
> Hi!
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> I need to implement a bidirectional, fully asynchronous client-server
> communication. Normally the java.net-API would do fine, but I also have
> to deal with firewalls/proxies. So I'm trying to use servlets and
> HttpClient.
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> There are  many examples of servlet-applet/application communication, but
> due  to the nature
> of HTTP everything is a synchronous "client-sends-request
> server-sends-response".
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> In my application client and server will have to send and receive data
>  from the other side
> whenever they want. So I had the idea of creating two connections, one fo=
r
> upstream and
> one for downstream. These connections will have to be kept alive during
> runtime of the
> client session.
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> That's the theory. In practice I don't get the output-stream
> client->server to work.
> Here's a little code I wrote with the java.net-API: In the servlet:
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>      public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse
> response) throws IOException, ServletException {
>          BufferedReader in =3D new BufferedReader(new
> InputStreamReader(request.getInputStream()));
>          while(true) {
>              Object l =3D in.readLine();           // read anything from =
the
> input stream and print it
>              System.out.println("recv-->"+l);
>              if (l=3D=3Dnull) return;
>          }
>      }
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> Client-side (output-stream to server):
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>          url =3D new URL( "http://127.0.0.1/url_to_servlet" );
>          URLConnection con =3D url.openConnection();
>          con.setDoOutput(true);
>          con.setDoInput(true);
>          con.setUseCaches(false);
>          PrintWriter out   =3D new PrintWriter(con.getOutputStream());
>          out.println("Hello?\n");
>          out.flush();
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> This doesn't work. Nothing is received by the servlet.
> Only when I add a
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>          con.getInputStream();
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> to the client code (after out.flush()) the servlet receives the string.
> But then I cannot
> use the output stream anymore.
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> Next I tried the HttpClient PostMethod with a RequestMethod:
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>          HttpClient client =3D new HttpClient();
>          PostMethod httppost =3D new
> PostMethod("http://127.0.0.1/url_to_servlet");
>          httppost.setRequestEntity(new RequestEntity() {
>              public void writeRequest(OutputStream out) throws IOExceptio=
n
> {
>                  for (int i=3D0;i<3;i++){
>                      // send 3 strings with 3 seconds pause
>                      w.println("Hello?\n");
>                      w.flush();
>                      try {
>                          Thread.sleep(3000);
>                      } catch (InterruptedException e) {  }
>                  }
>              }
>            [....]
>          }
>          client.executeMethod(httppost);
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> The result is similar. The strings are not received at once by the
> servlet. Only when the
> writeRequest-method returns the three strings arrive on the server-side.
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> What am I doing wrong?
> Is that asynchronous communication possible at all?
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> Thank you for reading my post.
> Any help appreciated.
>=20
> Thomas
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