Re: Servlets / How can we discard a request?

Daniel Pitts wrote:
On Mar 9, 6:36 pm, Covington Bradshaw <cog.b...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
In a servlet filter or servlet, how can we discard a request?
I.E. receive a given http request and simply decide to reject it
without answering the client with any response.

Well, at the worst, you should return a 404 response. Its only polite.
If you don't want any response, why have a servlet at all?

Or one of the other 4xx or 5xx responses. I agree that it makes no sense not
to respond at all -- if there's a reason why the server doesn't want to service
this request then it should /say/ so.

And, anyway, if the server just drops the connection without sending a standard
HTTP response, then the client will almost certainly retry -- thus increasing
the load on your server...

-- chris


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