André Warnier wrote: > Michael Ludwig wrote: >> Christopher Schultz schrieb: >> >>> When chunked encoding is being used, HTTP allows you to include >>> "headers" after the response by including a "final chunk" with more >>> headers for the previous chunk. >> > I am well aware of that, at the HTTP level. > However, the Servlet Spec seems to say that a Servlet Container has to > act in a different way. > So the question might be, really, in this case, whether Tomcat is > primarily a servlet Container respecting the Servlet Spec, or whether it > is primarily a HTTP server respecting the HTTP spec. > I mean that if Tomcat allowed the output of a header after the response > is committed, then it would be in clear violation of the aforementioned > Servlet Spec blurb, no ? > > I am not leaning one way or another personally, I just wanted to point > out where a doubt may exist.
Whilst the Servlet spec does appear to prevent Tomcat providing support for trailer headers, I would be +1 for a configuration option to enable them (probably enabled by default since I think having them is pretty harmless). Anyone feel like writing a patch? Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
