Jetty: wt are the reasons for the doPost method to be called twice?

[madura shantha]

Hi

I have a servlet and when client make a post request, i can see that the post method is called twice. I am using the jetty embedded server here. If I used the tomcat, it works fine.

what can be the problem?
thanks in advance.

here is the servlet code for the post method.

  protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,
                          HttpServletResponse response)
            throws IOException {     
        
 
        String requestXml = createRequestXml(request);
        for (int i = 0; i < ecgsRequests.length; i++) {
            String ecgsRequest = ecgsRequests[i];
            if (requestXml.indexOf(ecgsRequest) != -1) {
                String forwardUrl =
                        "/WEB-INF/jsp/response/" +
                                forwardMappings.get(ecgsRequest);
                try {
                    request.setAttribute("xml", requestXml);
                    request.getRequestDispatcher(forwardUrl)
                            .forward(request, response);
                } catch (ServletException e) {
                    response.sendError(
                            HttpServletResponse.SC_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }
    }
 private String createRequestXml(HttpServletRequest request)
            throws IOException {      
        StringBuilder requestXml = new StringBuilder();
        String line = null;
        BufferedReader br = null;
        try {
            br = request.getReader();
            while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {               
                requestXml.append(line);
            }
        } finally {
            if (br != null) {
                 br.close();                
            }
        }
        return requestXml.toString();
    }
==================================================================================
this is the code for the jetty embedded server.
 
Server server=new Server();
        server.addListener(":8081");
        ServletHttpContext context = (ServletHttpContext) server.getContext("/");
        context.addServlet("/", "my.RequestProcessor");
==================================================================================
this is the code for the client that connects to the server.
 
 client = new HttpClient();
        method =new PostMethod("http://127.0.0.1:8081/");      
        header = new Header("content-type", "text/plain");
        method.setRequestHeader(header);
RequestEntity requestEntity = new StringRequestEntity(toSent, "text/xml", "ISO-8859-1");
        method.setRequestEntity(requestEntity);
int statusCode = client.executeMethod(method);
 
 

Thanks for the help.



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