Questions re: response.getOutputStream()

[Richard Olson]

Hi,

Hi,

I'm a newbie try to complete the following goal. We need a utility for capturing or intercepting HTTP responses then writing the output to a file for troubleshooting purposes; something like a sniffer, but without packet info.

I've tried various methods, but so far no success. I�ve tried using ServerOutputStream sOutStr = response.getOutputStream(). How do I write the output to a file? No write methods exist for writing ServerOutputStream to a file. I looked at some of the other streams, but none seem to fit my purposes or I missed the boat.

Any ideas because I�m confused. Hopefully, my description makes sense.

Thanks,
Rich

[Ben Souther]

The typical approach (which isn't real friendly to newbies) is to wrap the response in an instance of HttpServletResonseWrapper and override the methods needed to alter the response's behaviour.

I have a rough example of this on my site:
http://simple.souther.us/capture.war

In it the response is captured in a filter and written to stdout.
I could be altered very easily to write the output to file.

[Richard Olson]

Thanks, Ben, I'll take a look