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----- Original Message -----
From: James R Amsden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 1:40 PM
Subject: Servlet support for HTTP Extensions and setStatus()
> Over the last year, I developed a WebDAV (http://www.webdav.org) server by
using
> a servlet to extend HTTP for a number of WebServers including Apache. For
> details, see http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/dav4j. I am now updating DAV4J
to
> use WebSphere AppServer 3.0 which is based on version 2.1 of the servlet
API.
>
> My problem is that HttpServletResponse.setStatus(int, String) has been
> deprecated. This prevents servlets from being used to extend HTTP as it is
no
> longer possible for the servlet to set the HTTP status response. I can use
> setStatus(int), but this doesn't set the short message required by HTTP.
This is
> not the same method as sendError() as it does not send back any formatted
HTML.
> It only sets the status line (the first line) returned in the HTTP
response.
> That is, setStatus() is part of the HTTP protocol support, not a facility
for
> servlet writers to send HTML entity response bodies back to the client.
For
> example, setStatus(200, "OK") would cause
>
> 200 OK
>
> to be sent as the first line in the HTTP response. Deprecating
setStatus(int,
> String) will prevent DAV4J from being updated to the latest servlet
> specification, and will prevent other extensions to HTTP by servlets. I
realize
> servlets were designed primarily to support HTTP server extensions through
> processing dynamic URL references, but they can easily be used to extend
HTTP
> methods as well. It would be a real loss to loose this capability,
especially
> with all the activity associated with WebDAV and its extensions. Servlets
are a
> great way to use Java to experiment with this emerging standard.
>
> Can we get this method back?
>
>
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