Re: [jetty-users] Long running request timeouts

[Greg Wilkins <gregw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Spencer,

There is nothing you can totally at the jetty level as the servlet spec does not allow jetty to interrupt a dispatched thread.  

Depending on you application, you could also try writing a simple filter that remembers the thread that it passed on through the chain and it can attempt to apply a timeout and do the interrupt.   If your handling is interruptible, this simple approach could work.

But many are not interruptible.  However, you could perhaps look at async servlets - using request.startAsync(),  Then you can disassociate the thread handling the response from the thread that generates the response.

cheers

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