On 11/2/03 8:56, "Sylvain Wallez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tony Collen wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Nathaniel Alfred wrote:
>>
>>> Why not use plain old FileGenerator? At least with 2.1's URLSource
>>>
>>> <map:generate type="file" src="http://backend/article?id=xyz"/>
>>>
>>> works like a charm. Am I missing something?
>>
>> The WSP also passes any POST or GET parameters to the remote host, which
>> is something the FileGenerator does not do. Would it just make sense to
>> put this feature into the FileGenerator as a <map:parameter/> ?
>
> -1 : FileGenerator is one of the most used generators (if not most
> used), and can be used with any kind of source. POSTing parameters is
> very specific to remote resources accessed through HTTP and should be
> kept in a separate class (not to mention the dependency on
> commons-httpclient which should be avoided in the core).
I totally agree with Sylvain over here...
Pier
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