I have the following get:
@Get
public String represent(Variant variant) throws ResourceException
{
String text = "returntext";
text+="\r\n";
return text;
}
The response from invoking this service:
CFG - HTTP/1.1 200 OK Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 19:59:37 GMT Server: Restlet-Framework/2.0.9 Vary: Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Accept Content-Length: 118 Connection: keep-alive
How do I change the connection header value to close ?
I think this maybe a restlet bug.
Whether the server closes the connection or not, depends on whether the client request asks for the connection to close or not.
Here is a sample Server code:
import org.restlet.data.Form;
import org.restlet.data.MediaType;
import org.restlet.data.Parameter;
import org.restlet.resource.Get;
import org.restlet.resource.ServerResource;
import org.restlet.util.Series;
public class TestRestlet extends ServerResource {
@Get
public String getImpl(){
return "Sample Response Text\r\n";
}
}
And here is what i got on linux commmand line (using only telnet): [Please note that the last line in request-header in each request is followed by 2 newlines] [To avoid any confusion, some of the requests do not contain request-body.]
[root@mylinuxserver]# telnet 172.16.101.34 6060
Trying 172.16.101.34...
Connected to win7comp01 (172.16.101.34).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /TestRestlet HTTP/1.1
Host: 172.16.101.34:6060
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=C2E77F4D0437E525A0FC66498EF09E8B; Path=/hotelSoft
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:25:44 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Restlet-Framework/2.0.15
Vary: Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Accept
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 22
Sample Response Text
GET /TestRestlet HTTP/1.1
Host: 172.16.101.34:6060
Connection: Keep-Alive
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=1873DE26443F5DF62379B895AEA0F004; Path=/hotelSoft
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:25:48 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Restlet-Framework/2.0.15
Vary: Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Accept
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 22
Sample Response Text
GET /TestRestlet HTTP/1.1
Host: 172.16.101.34:6060
Connection: close
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=43EC7C9AACC6C0CEF6FAC8F608B1D79C; Path=/hotelSoft
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:25:57 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Restlet-Framework/2.0.15
Vary: Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Accept
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 22
Connection: close
Sample Response Text
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@mylinuxserver]# telnet 172.16.101.34 6060
Trying 172.16.101.34...
Connected to win7comp01 (172.16.101.34).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /TestRestlet HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=2C879A91F2501DD9D3B39EF50C3F46CA; Path=/hotelSoft
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:26:09 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Restlet-Framework/2.0.15
Vary: Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Accept
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 22
Connection: close
Sample Response Text
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@mylinuxserver]# telnet 172.16.101.34 6060
Trying 172.16.101.34...
Connected to win7comp01 (172.16.101.34).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /TestRestlet
Sample Response Text
Connection closed by foreign host.
[root@mylinuxserver]#
In the above examples, several types of HTTP connections are made.
The response to the 1st request:
GET /TestRestlet HTTP/1.1
Host: 172.16.101.34:6060
[Note: the line Host: 172.16.101.34:6060 is followed by 2 \r\n: \r\n\r\n]
is:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=C2E77F4D0437E525A0FC66498EF09E8B; Path=/hotelSoft
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:25:44 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Restlet-Framework/2.0.15
Vary: Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Accept
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 22
Sample Response Text
The connection is not closed yet, and we send another request:
GET /TestRestlet HTTP/1.1
Host: 172.16.101.34:6060
Connection: Keep-Alive
That gets the response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=1873DE26443F5DF62379B895AEA0F004; Path=/hotelSoft
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:25:48 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Restlet-Framework/2.0.15
Vary: Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Accept
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 22
Still the connection is not closed.
However on the 3rd request:
GET /TestRestlet HTTP/1.1
Host: 172.16.101.34:6060
Connection: close
The connection is closed, because the request contains Connection: close header.
You can see the telnet exits after displaying a message: Connection closed by foreign host.
There are 2 more sample request-response in the above given examples:
1.An HTTP 1.0 request:
GET /TestRestlet HTTP/1.0
With response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=2C879A91F2501DD9D3B39EF50C3F46CA; Path=/hotelSoft
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:26:09 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Restlet-Framework/2.0.15
Vary: Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Language, Accept
Content-Type: application/json;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 22
Connection: close
Sample Response Text
And the telnet exits after displaying: Connection closed by foreign host.
2.A request without HTTP version mentioned:
GET /TestRestlet
And response is: (Without headers)
Sample Response Text
And the telnet exits with a message: Connection closed by foreign host.
Conclusion:
Whatever is your client / client-program , make it send an HTTP-1.0 request , or a HTTP-1.1 request with Connection: close header.
In Java, you achieve this by:
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;
.
.
.
HttpURLConnection httpURLConnection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL("http://....").openConnection();
httpURLConnection.setRequestProperty("Connection","close");
// rest of the code here....
Also check if a statement like this:
httpURLConnection.disconnect();
can help you disconnect the connection.