On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Ben Laurie wrote: > Jason Hunter wrote: > > If scoped namespaces can be handled efficiently, they'll be included. > > If handling scoped namespaces is extremely onerous and slow, then they > > may not be included, at least by default. It wouldn't be unprecedented; > > I'm strongly suspect the Apache server has a few places where they > > violate the HTTP spec for the sake of speed. I *know* Tomcat does. > > No way. Roy would have our guts for garters if we did that! > > My understanding is that Tomcat is not intended to run standalone except > for testing, so standards compliance is not so important.
Pretty much. It violates the standard primarily because it was put together in a quicky hack one night and it was fully intended for it to get ripped out and replaced by something that was HTTP/1.1 compliant. It didn't happen before it went public, and the rest is an open book. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
