Servlet/JSP client timeout handling

Question

Hi,
Is it possible to detect a client timeout in a servlet / jsp ?
Example,
I go to a page that is displayed by a servlet. I put Thread.sleep in the servlet to simulate the request processing time.
Assuming now I close the browser (or any other client) and the servlet tries to write the response, will it throw any exceptions ?
What can I do to check the client status before trying to write the response back ?
Thanks
Mandar

Answer 1

Hi,
The servlet did not throw any exception when I tried to write the response back after sleep.
Code is as shown below
try{
Thread.sleep(60000);
catch (InterruptedException ie){
logger.error("Someone interrupted my sleep",ie);
logger.info("End sleep for 1 minute");
try{
response.getOutputStream().write(2);
response.flushBuffer();
catch (IOException ioe){
logger.error("IOException occured",ioe);
throw ioe;
}