OK, so what's the rationalization for the 302? Can you shed some light on that?
John -----Original Message----- From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 9:07 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: RE: RewriteRules and Standalone Tomcat On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Turner, John wrote: > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 20:33:50 -0500 > From: "Turner, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: 'Tomcat Users List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: RewriteRules and Standalone Tomcat > > > No problem, glad to help. Remember, Tomcat is not a HTTP server. It > supports HTTP as a matter of convenience. You can run Tomcat all day > long without a HTTP or HTTPS connector, and as far as I know, there is > nothing in the spec that says Tomcat has to meet certain requirements > for HTTP or HTTPS. CoyoteConnector is HTTP/1.1 compliant, but again, > that's more for convenience and compatibility than a design > requirement. > Auoting from Servlet Specification, Version 2.3, Section 1.2: All servlet containers must support HTTP as a protocol for requests and responses, but additional request/response based protocols (such as HTTPS (HTTP over SSL) may be supported. The minimum required version of the HTTP specification that a container must implement is HTTP/1.0. It is strongly suggested that containers implement the HTTP/1.1 specification as well. So, a servlet container (which is either Tomcat standalone or Tomcat+Apache) *must* support HTTP. > I'm sure the folks on tomcat-dev could shed some more light on it. > Of course, this statement does nothing to resolve the issue of what the right welcome file behavior is -- the HTTP spec is silent about that :-). > John Craig -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.434 / Virus Database: 243 - Release Date: 12/25/2002 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.434 / Virus Database: 243 - Release Date: 12/25/2002 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
