- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 14:46:07 +0000
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Julian Reschke wrote, > Miles Sabin wrote, > > That's consistent with the Servlet _API_ ... but you've no > > guarantee that any particular Servlet implementation will support > > arbitrary extension methods. > > OK. You can do it with any servlet implementation that conforms to > the servlet specification. You've misread the Servlet spec. It _allows_ Servlet implementations to support arbitrary extension HTTP methods, but it doesn't _require_ them to provide support. > > Like I said, how is the implementation supposed to know that the > > semantics of MGET are like GET rather than M-GET or CONNECT? > > It's not supposed to know. The whole point is that the servlet spec > allows you to implement *any* method. Yup ... _allows_. Cheers, Miles
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