On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Turner, John wrote:
> Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 20:33:50 -0500
> From: "Turner, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 'Tomcat Users List' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: RewriteRules and Standalone Tomcat
>
>
> No problem, glad to help. Remember, Tomcat is not a HTTP server. It
> supports HTTP as a matter of convenience. You can run Tomcat all day long
> without a HTTP or HTTPS connector, and as far as I know, there is nothing in
> the spec that says Tomcat has to meet certain requirements for HTTP or
> HTTPS. CoyoteConnector is HTTP/1.1 compliant, but again, that's more for
> convenience and compatibility than a design requirement.
>
Auoting from Servlet Specification, Version 2.3, Section 1.2:
All servlet containers must support HTTP as a protocol
for requests and responses, but additional request/response
based protocols (such as HTTPS (HTTP over SSL) may be
supported. The minimum required version of the HTTP
specification that a container must implement is HTTP/1.0.
It is strongly suggested that containers implement the
HTTP/1.1 specification as well.
So, a servlet container (which is either Tomcat standalone or
Tomcat+Apache) *must* support HTTP.
> I'm sure the folks on tomcat-dev could shed some more light on it.
>
Of course, this statement does nothing to resolve the issue of what the
right welcome file behavior is -- the HTTP spec is silent about that :-).
> John
Craig
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