doget dopost handler

[Jeff Kish]

trying to get a handle on understanding servlets.

say there is a doget and dopost method that call a generic
doit(request,response) method.

Suppose the doit(request,response) method just returns if, say a
session.getattribute(ImBusyFlag) is set, and otherwise uses
session.setattribute to
set the flag, do work and then clear it before returning.

What happens to the request if it isn't processed at all. it doesn't get
'lost', does it? or is it up to the requestor/browser to realize it was not
processed and to try again or what?

thanks

Jeff Kish