How to specify Http Request timeout parameter on Java servlet container

Question

I\'m trying to understand where I can configure a request timeout for all requests arriving to a servlet of mine (or all of my servlets)? Is that, as I think, a container pr

Answer 1

You cannot control the client timeout from the server. However you may be able to send data back to the client every now and then while your long running operation is busy. This will prevent the client from timing out and can be used to display progress to the user etc. Write data to the OutputStream or Writer obtained from the response and call flush to send partial data to the client.