Re: [Springframework-developer] HandlerInterceptor is a misleadingname

[Colin Y. <col...@gm...>]

>
> If binary data was written directly to the response and then an
> exception thrown, I'm not sure what exactly would happen, but if you're
> streaming a dynamic image or something like that I'm sure you can safely
> assume whether Spring blows up or not that you'll get a bogus response
> from the server.


The ServletResponse doesn't support using *both* getWriter or
getOutputStream, it is one or the other.  As you said, if the browser has
started receiving, and expecting binary data it would be non-sensical to
send html as the content type would all be wrong.