William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > Costin Manolache wrote: > >> I'm curious - why would you need the options method ? >> >> Obviously, as you found, tomcat does not support it ( and many other >> servers ), and I never heard of any use of it, even if it is in the >> spec. >> >> Well, in theory servlets could respond to 'options' method if they >> choose to - and so could the default servlet. > > > Whoa!!! Most clients rely on this to determine if, for example, the > server supports DAV. OPTIONS absolutely must be supported, per spec, > and it's absense breaks, for example, some of the download managers > which will use DAV retrieval using PROPGET of a given document when > available, and simple GET when not.
Options is supported in javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet does not override this. org.apache.catalina.servlets.WebdavServlet does override it to set the DAV, Allow and MS-Author-Via headers. >From a WEBDAV point of view, everything looks fine. The response to static resources is a different question which I will respond to separately. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
