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jaleel
jaleel

Reputation: 1187

Servlet requests

in Servlet which types of requst (protocols)will handle. ?

i mean , http, https,

Upvotes: 1

Views: 213

Answers (2)

khotyn
khotyn

Reputation: 954

HTTP and HTTPS has nothing different to the servlet container after the connection establishes, so both HTTP and HTTPS are handled by Servlet.

Upvotes: 0

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1500515

The servlet framework is designed to be more general than that - in theory, a servlet container could handle requests for Finger, Gopher, FTP etc. That's why we have HttpServlet as a subclass of GenericServlet which implements Servlet. (HttpServlet is designed to handle https as well as http.)

In practice, I don't think I've seen any production servlets handling non-http(s) traffic, although I dare say they exist :) (Although I've just found this finger implementation.)

Upvotes: 3

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