Re[2]: addEventlistener question

Hello Christian,

Wednesday, March 05, 2003, 10:33:52 AM, you wrote:

CC> Ok, so now on second thought, I started wondering about this. If I look in
CC> ApplicationGateway, it looks to me like doPut is in fact enabled - it should
CC> route to the same handleDefault() method as doGet or doPost. So I'm
CC> wondering why PUT didn't work. I wonder if it is a function of the appserver
CC> you are using perhaps?

CC> ever curious,
CC> Christian

I think it is a function of the browser.  Unless I'm mistaken, no
current browser supports HTTP PUT.  They only support GET and POST.
That is the reason that when using, for instance, the Tomcat manager
app, you can't "deploy" your .war via the browser, only "intall" or
upload a .war file using HTTP POST (in recent Tomcat-4.1.x versions).  The only way to do
this (without writing your own program) is by using the Catalina Ant
manager "deploy" task.


I'm not sure we should even have HTTP PUT enabled?  In fact, it would
have cleared up this issue from the get-go.  We have to understand
the behavior of HTTP PUT as far as how parameters are passed before we
allow its use.  We are
all famililar with POST and GET and should probably limit Barracuda to
that until we actually understand how to support PUT.  The other
option is to detect the client and ask if it actually supports PUT.
If not, we return an error page stating the lack of client support.

Jake