Re: [jetty-users] Can Jetty decide not to respond to a request?

[Simone Bordet <sbordet@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 5:13 PM Glen Peterson <glen.k.peterson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My first choice would be to decide not to respond from within an AbstractHandler's handle() method, after examining the (HttpServlet)Request.  But if there's another place we can examine the request (ideally in Java), that would work too.  Right now I've got some code like:
>
> object MyHandler: AbstractHandler() {
>
>     override fun handle(target: String,
>                         baseRequest: Request,
>                         request: HttpServletRequest,
>                         response: HttpServletResponse) {
>
>         val rawPath = request.getPathInfo()
>
>         // We don't have any PHP files.  Any attempt to access one is hacking.
>         if ( rawPath.endsWith(".php") ) {
>             logger.info("BOGUS Request: [${request.pathInfo}]")

baseRequest.getHttpChannel().getEndPoint().close();

However, in general is not that big of a difference to send a 400
(response.sendError(400)), it's more standard and will work for the
years in future.

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