Re: multiget reports Re: Thoughts on relation to WebDAV

Jack Cleaver wrote:
> ...
> I found both Tomcat's and Jetty's HTTP stack to be unsuitable as a basis
> for building a DAV stack. Certainly it *should* be as you suggest; but
> these programs weren't designed with this kind of extension in mind.
> Really, it is much easier to throw it all away and start again.
> 
> Jetty is much better than Tomcat in this respect; but even Jetty has
> some limitations. This isn't really criticism; designing software to be
> extensible without having much of a clue what extensions people are
> going to try and build is very difficult.
> ...

Out of curiosity: what kinds of problems did you experience?

As far as I can tell, the most compliant and complete WebDAV servers are 
currently implemented as servlets...

BR, Julian