Nic Ferrier wrote:
> >>> Danny Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/25/99 5:22:12
> PM >>>
>
> >I consider URL rewriting a dirty trick (see the hotmail bug),
> >with too much drawbacks to consider it any longer as a
> >serious alternative. Browser persistence has become
> >too crucial for a web-application : 99% of your target audience
> >can support cookies... no need to become a slave of the
> >overwhelming amount of (would-be) browsers out there...
>
One could quibble (a lot) over how accurate the "99%" number is, but even if
that were the case -- it's still critically important if *your* target market
is in the 1% category. :-)
Hint: web browsers are *not* the only clients of servlet/JSP based
applications.
>
> Come, come Danny.
>
> I don't think this is true at all - the latest versions of
> GNU-Paperclips support URL-rewriting and I can't believe the Apache
> Jserv people will not support it - Craig? Jon?
>
Apache JServ 1.0 supports URL rewriting. I was quite astounded to find out
that Tomcat (the servlet engine inside JSWDK) does not -- now that it's open
source, that is definitely going to get fixed.
Craig McClanahan
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