Assuming a client would be requesting data via your servlet, I don't believe
there is a limit. Your sevlet calls PrintWriter.write(..) and that
implements buffering that would flush onces the buffer is full.

On 12/15/06, Scott Carr <scarr@(protected):
>
> Does a servlet require the use of a Content-Length for the Reader to be
> populated?
>
> I trying to use Tomcat instead of writing my own Socket Server. I have
> a set of lines that I am trying to parse, but I don't have any idea how
> much is going to be sent up front.
>
> It may be 1000Kb, or it may be several Megabytes worth of information,
> and I want to read each line as they come in, and handle the request on
> a line by line basis.
>
> Any ideas on this? ... Should I write my own socket server?
>
> Thanks
>
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