Tom Drake wrote:
> 
> It seems to me that making your servlet / jsp dependant on the
> order of the parameters is a huge mistake, even if this order
> is guaranteed by all browsers and by Tomcat and all other
> servlet containers.
> 

 Mechanism not policy.

 If you thing maintaining the order of form parameters
is of questionable utility, just take a look at the
requirements for ServletRequest.getLocales() (hint:
the "q" parameter is a real hoot.)

 But it's in the spec, so somebody, somewhere has
probably come up with a use for it.

 The servlet spec inherits Accept-Language semantics
from the HTTP spec, just like it arguably ought to
inherit form-ordering semantics from the HTML spec.
(That is, assuming I'm interpreting the HTML spec
correctly)

 I don't really have a great deal of emotion tied up
in the issue, it's more of a specification nit. But
on such nits is interoperability built :-)


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Christopher St. John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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