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This was a very thought about design point. As a general rule, customer dont like things to be deleted on them. This was how it was designed back in 2000 when the Apache server was added to the IBM i. When an HTTP Server is created, user can add all sorts of other content and business logic that can be used by the server. Its an IFS directory. You can also point the HTTP server to look in other paths, certainly those other locations that are associated with the HTTP server would not be removed by a delete HTTP server action. If an optional action was added to only delete the 'www/serverName' directory and its contents would that be acceptable? Knowing that we would not be showing you the contents of that directory tree ?
This might be worth considering if (and only if) it was offered as a selectable option in the wizard. I would also want to see a "Are you sure" dialog associated with the option.
The current approach has been in place a long time and I for one have taken advantage of the retention of the files when deleting a server. Not wanting the server any more does not necessarily mean I don't want the files.