Costin Manolache wrote:
I'm curious - why would you need the options method ?
Obviously, as you found, tomcat does not support it ( and many other
servers ), and I never heard of any use of it, even if it is in the
spec.
Well, in theory servlets could respond to 'options' method if they
choose
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
> Costin Manolache wrote:
>
>> I'm curious - why would you need the options method ?
>>
>> Obviously, as you found, tomcat does not support it ( and many other
>> servers ), and I never heard of any use of it, even if it is in the
>> spec.
>>
>> Well, in theory servlets
Mauro Bertapelle wrote:
> Costin,
>
> you've got the point I was trying to make, this has nothing to do with
> webdav and the naive
> way in which ie implements it, but probably Tomcat should handle
> "options" better when
> it's acting as a static web server.
>
> Mauro
I have confirmed this beh
Mark Thomas wrote:
> Mauro Bertapelle wrote:
>>this has nothing to do with
>>webdav and the naive
>>way in which ie implements it, but probably Tomcat should handle
>>"options" better when
>>it's acting as a static web server.
>>
>>Mauro
>
> I have confirmed this behaviour with the latest source f
DefaultServlet doesn't implement OPTIONS either, and I don't remember
ever implementing or seeing an implementation of the method in
anything except webdav servlet.
Since it is part of the standard - and it seems it is even used - we
should support it, but this has been broken forever. I'm curious
"Mark Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Mark Thomas wrote:
>> Mauro Bertapelle wrote:
>>>this has nothing to do with
>>>webdav and the naive
>>>way in which ie implements it, but probably Tomcat should handle
>>>"options" better when
>>>it's acting as a static
On 1/7/06, Bill Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Which is exactly what the JSP spec says it should do, and why Remy was
> absolutely correct to consider that this is a users@ question. It's up to
> the page author to decide how to deal with the request method.
The page author is us, index.js
"Costin Manolache" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On 1/7/06, Bill Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Which is exactly what the JSP spec says it should do, and why Remy was
> absolutely correct to consider that this is a users@ question. It's up to
> the page autho
On 1/7/06, Bill Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DefaultServlet inherits doOptions from HttpServlet. This works correctly
> (and, has back at least to the Sevlet-2.2 days), and is why Servlets rarely
> have to implement it. If you had index.html instead of index.jsp, you would
> see exactly w
