"Carver,F,NAIDP,CARVERFK M" wrote:
> All of this scares me. I hope the powers-that-be are more on the ball
> than this. The HTTP protocol (and therefore any Servlet protocols) does
> _not_
> know or care about "file extensions".
In a previous post -- I just exposed about this.
> If I want to run a server on a system which _doesn't_have_file_extensions_,
> but
> encodes file/mime type information separate from the file name, I should be
> able
> to, without any hidden penalties or assumptions from the server or servlet
> engine.
> (and I actually do do this at home. One of my servers runs Acorn RiscOs)
Note -- it is up to the servlet engine to determine the mime type for
any particular resource.
> I understand that the current system of specifying mappings is (a)
> underspecified
> and (b) a protototype, the best that could be implemented at short notice.
> From
> what James Duncan Davidson has posted here, I also understand that work is
> underway to design and specify a "better" system.
It's an optional section of the servlet specification -- it is an
evolution of a system that has been at work for sometime in the Java Web
Server.
> I suggest that we gather up all the kinds of mappings we can think of, and
> ensure
> that any proposed mapping system supports them all clearly and
> unambiguously.
Please submit to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- I don't want to
shortcut any discussion here -- but this is not a direct forum for
specification input. We have a process in place to take feedback,
evaluate it, produce a specification, submit it to limited review by our
"expert group", and then submit it to long term public review. We'll be
following this process for the next version of the spec.
.duncan
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