- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 18:33:49 +0200
- To: Jack Cleaver <jack@jackpot.uk.net>
- CC: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Jack Cleaver wrote: > ... > I found both Tomcat's and Jetty's HTTP stack to be unsuitable as a basis > for building a DAV stack. Certainly it *should* be as you suggest; but > these programs weren't designed with this kind of extension in mind. > Really, it is much easier to throw it all away and start again. > > Jetty is much better than Tomcat in this respect; but even Jetty has > some limitations. This isn't really criticism; designing software to be > extensible without having much of a clue what extensions people are > going to try and build is very difficult. > ... Out of curiosity: what kinds of problems did you experience? As far as I can tell, the most compliant and complete WebDAV servers are currently implemented as servlets... BR, Julian
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