Re: multiget reports Re: Thoughts on relation to WebDAV

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.