- From: Jack Cleaver <jack@jackpot.uk.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 19:43:43 +0100
- To: WebDAV <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Julian Reschke wrote: > 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 I recall, I couldn't override the built-in Tomcat HTTP method handlers without overriding the HTTP servlet itself. This was over a year ago, and I haven't touched the code for a while. -- Jack.
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