Error flushing the output stream in Sun One server

Question

Hi All,
I was running my servlet code in iPlanet 6.0 version and it was working fine. I upgraded my web server to new Sun One server (Oracle-iPlanet-Web-Server-7.0.9). With the new web server almost 90% of my application works fine, but there is a features in my application to download an Excel sheet by clicking a button. This feature is failing in new Sun One web server.
Below are my piece of code and the error log I m getting. Can anyone tell me how I can fix this error, I mean is there any web server specific change or configuration parameter need to be set.
Please ask for any information regarding my server configuration settings if needed for finding a solution for this
Code:
byte abyte0[] = new byte[1024];
BufferedInputStream bufferedinputstream=null;
BufferedOutputStream bufferedoutputstream=null;
java.io.InputStream inputstream = httpurlconnection.getInputStream();
bufferedinputstream = new BufferedInputStream(inputstream);
bufferedoutputstream = new BufferedOutputStream(httpservletresponse.getOutputStream());
int j;
long byteCount=0;
while((j = bufferedinputstream.read(abyte0, 0, 1024)) != -1)
byteCount=byteCount+j;
if(logger != null && logger.traceOn())
logger.log("total"+byteCount);
logger.log("Read bytes:"+j);
bufferedoutputstream.write(abyte0, 0, j);
if(logger != null && logger.traceOn())
logger.log("Wrote bytes:"+j);
bufferedoutputstream.flush(); // <<<<<< ERROR POINT >>>>>>
Error Log :
ClientAbortException: java.io.IOException: WEB8004: Error flushing the output stream
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.OutputBuffer.doFlush(OutputBuffer.java:343)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.OutputBuffer.flush(OutputBuffer.java:313)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteOutputStream.flush(CoyoteOutputStream.java:147)
at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:124)
at com.reuters.bdec.as.ASRequestHandler.processResponse(ASRequestHandler.java:285)
at com.reuters.bdec.as.ASRequestHandler.initiateGetRequest(ASRequestHandler.java:89)
at com.reuters.bdec.as.ASRequestHandler.proceedToDestination(ASRequestHandler.java:220)
at com.reuters.bdec.as.ASExtension.authorisationCheck(ASExtension.java:84)
at com.reuters.bdec.as.ASExtension.doGet(ASExtension.java:114)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:794)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:915)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.servletService(ApplicationFilterChain.java:398)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:277)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContextValve.java:255)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:586)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:556)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:187)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:586)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:556)
at com.sun.webserver.connector.nsapi.NSAPIProcessor.service(NSAPIProcessor.java:160)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: WEB8004: Error flushing the output stream
at com.sun.webserver.connector.nsapi.NSAPIProcessor.action(NSAPIProcessor.java:243)
at org.apache.coyote.Response.action(Response.java:197)
at org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.OutputBuffer.doFlush(OutputBuffer.java:339)
... 20 more

Answer 1

Don't flush it yourself. The servlet container will automatically flush for you once its send buffer is full. You can change the size of the send buffer though.