Re: 100-continue implementation status question

I've fired off a message.


On 01/06/2008, at 10:50 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

>
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Paul Leach wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Can people help with the following question:
>>>
>>> How widely implemented is 100-continue? And how correctly?
>>> ...
>> In Java servlet world: the servers do implement it partly.
>> That is, they understand Expect: 100-continue, and reply with 100  
>> Continue when asked for it.
>> However, the containers do not let the servlets have a say  
>> (inspecting the request, and potentially saying "417 Expectation  
>> Failed"). This is a restriction that has been known for a long  
>> time, and I certainly hope the Java Servlet EG will address that at  
>> some point of time (I haven't checked recently, so maybe they  
>> already did and I missed it).
>
> Speaking of which... does anybody know whether the Servlet EG is  
> following this mailing list?
>
> BR, Julian
>


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