stripped down 200 OK response?

Hi,
Is there a way to minimize the amount of data in the http headers for a
specific servlet/application that is sent back in an OK packet?

I have a program that communicates with Apache/Tomcat by posting data to
a servlet, but its a one-directional communication. The program doesn't
expect any data back. Of course the servlet sends back an "http ok"
packet back to my application to indicate that the request has been
processed. The problem is that this application will be used over
modems, and the 'http ok' packet is really big for its purpose and takes
up a lot of bandwidth:

this is a sample outgoing request:

"POST /apppath?key1=value1&key2=value2 HTTP/1.1
Content-length: 10
Host: 192.168.129.192
<10 bytes of binary data>"

and I get back this:

"HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:13:22 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.44 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.44 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/2
mod_jk/1.2.2
Content-Length: 2
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

OK"

which I promptly discard because I don't care about it.

So the OK packet is bigger than my data packet.
All I really need is something like:
"HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Length: 2
OK"

maybe even
"HTTP/1.1 200 OK" - but for now I purposefully write back the OK string.

is this possible? I haven't been able to find much about this.
Thank you!


Dmitriy

change the server information to be Tokens only


"Dmitriy A" <dima600eb DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message news:pM6dnYrvw5RnGqbd4p2dnA@giganews.com...
 > Hi,
 > Is there a way to minimize the amount of data in the http headers for a
 > specific servlet/application that is sent back in an OK packet?
 >
 > I have a program that communicates with Apache/Tomcat by posting data to
 > a servlet, but its a one-directional communication. The program doesn't
 > expect any data back. Of course the servlet sends back an "http ok"
 > packet back to my application to indicate that the request has been
 > processed. The problem is that this application will be used over
 > modems, and the 'http ok' packet is really big for its purpose and takes
 > up a lot of bandwidth:
 >
 > this is a sample outgoing request:
 >
 > "POST /apppath?key1=value1&key2=value2 HTTP/1.1
 > Content-length: 10
 > Host: 192.168.129.192
 > <10 bytes of binary data>"
 >
 > and I get back this:
 >
 > "HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 > Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 01:13:22 GMT
 > Server: Apache/2.0.44 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.44 OpenSSL/0.9.6b DAV/2
 > mod_jk/1.2.2
 > Content-Length: 2
 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
 >
 > OK"
 >
 > which I promptly discard because I don't care about it.
 >
 > So the OK packet is bigger than my data packet.
 > All I really need is something like:
 > "HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 > Content-Length: 2
 > OK"
 >
 > maybe even
 > "HTTP/1.1 200 OK" - but for now I purposefully write back the OK string.
 >
 > is this possible? I haven't been able to find much about this.
 > Thank you!
 >
 >
 > Dmitriy
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
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