Jeff Grangier wrote:
Would anyone in the Project Management Committee, Advisory board, or the
committer group acknowledge that this bug is understood and will be
considered in the next releases of Tomcat?
The issue is understood.
This is not a bug, since there is no spec violation. Given the
strength of your feelings, you should lobby the spec team for the
change. That way, all servlet containers will implement this feature.
I don't see any committer wanting to scratch this particular itch. You
could implement it yourself and submit it as an enhancement request
but, like any patch, one of the committers would need to apply it and
any committer concerns leading to a binding -1 would also need to be
addressed.
I can't speak for the rest if the committers but at best I am going to
be -0 on this and depending on the patch might be -1. It is obviously
difficult to comment on a patch that doesn't yet exist but my key
concerns at this point are:
1. It would encourage the development of non-portable applications
2. It adds unnecessary (not required by the spec) bloat
3. Making it configurable adds yet more code/complexity (but does
address my first concern as long as the default is the current behaviour)
For the record, and given previous comments on this thread,
performance is a concern but it is quite a long way down my list.
Again, speaking purely personally, I don't see this as something that
needs to be addressed in any future release. If the spec mandates this
change then I'll be first in line to implement it. Until that time
there are enough things that need doing to keep me and the other
committers busy at the moment.
Other committers may well have differing views but that is my $0.02
Mark
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