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Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:30:17 +0200
From: Michel Onoff <michel.onoff@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Are requests and responses self-contained?
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On 2011-07-30 00:12, Oleg Kalnichevski wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 20:10 +0200, Michel Onoff wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> consider the following code, which form some reason assumes that
>> requests have enclosing entities
>>
>> // conn is a DefaultHttpServerConnection, for example
>> req1 = (HttpEntityEnclosingRequest) conn.receiveRequestHeader();
>> conn.receiveRequestEntity(req1);
>>
>> req2 = (HttpEntityEnclosingRequest) conn.receiveRequestHeader();
>> conn.receiveRequestEntity(req2);
>>
>> Can I later say req1.getRequestLine() or req1.getEntity(), even if in
>> the meantime I got req2 from the same connection?
> 
> No, you can't. You cannot obtain the second request object from the
> connection before the request entity of the first one has been fully
> consumed. 
> 
>> In other words, are requests fully self-contained and totally
>> independent from the connection once both the header and the entity (if
>> existing) have been received?
>>
> 
> No, they are not, if content entities are being streamed (not buffered
> in memory).   
> 

So if I need to keep requests and responses I have to copy them to
buffered equivalents using BasicHttpEntityEnclosingRequest,
BasicHttpResponse, ByteArrayEntity and friends, right?

Thanks

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