Name: skT45625 Date: 04/27/2000


java version "1.3.0rc3"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.3.0rc3-Z)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.3.0rc3-Z, mixed mode)

My applet needs to communicate to the web server. The communication
is implemented via URLConnection relative to the document base.
The responce to the request has extended lifecycle (something analogous
to HTTP media streaming, i.e. the data arrives in chunks in the body
of response).

The problem is, getInputStream in 1.3 doesn't seem to return until
the response is finished (socket dropped on the server side.)

All Java VMs prior to 1.3 and old browsers (except NS6 which uses 1.3)
seem to work fine.

Live example available at http://demo.c.uroam.com/delaytest/index.htm
the applet source at http://demo.c.uroam.com/delaytest/MainApplet.java
the Apache module generating data at
http://demo.c.uroam.com/delaytest/test_module.cpp

The example url first spits out around 3K of text to exclude buffering as
the explanation for the problem, then generates a line every 4 sec 10 times.
(Review ID: 103808)
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additional information:

Just as a new input: this bug shows up only when the Content-Length
header in the reply is not set.
But, as this is not a "must have" header, it's still a bug.

Thanks a lot!
Igor

suresh.kondamareddy@eng 2000-04-27