[Jetty-support] servlet spec question on client

[Eric B. <bl...@la...>]

I figure there's likely someone who can answer this question here.

What is the recommended way for someone who's processing a request that 
might take a long time to "notice that the client has closed the 
socket/aborted the request" ?

This seems like the a hole in the servlet spec... or at least something 
I've not seen in 2.[2-4] specs.

In C code with unix-like apis, I think there's a signal you can listen 
for.  I would imagine in Java, you'd be stuck with polling a la some api 
  like:

boolean HttpServletRequest.active() or HttpServletRequest.aborted()

or perhaps there would be a listener?



-Eric