On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Wesley Acheson <wesley.ache...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Remy Maucherat <r...@apache.org> wrote: >> On Tue, 2010-09-14 at 12:26 +0100, Mark Thomas wrote: >>> You need to be able to quote the section of the spec that demonstrates >>> it is wrong. Having quickly scanned the 2.5 and 3.0 specs I think you >>> are going to find that there is no clear definition of whether filters >>> are processed before or after welcome files. Currently, Tomcat handles >>> welcome files first. >>> >>> If you can find some spec language that requires filters to be processed >>> before welcome files, the bug is valid. If you can't it is "won't fix" >>> and I'll add clarifying the order to my list of issues to raise with the >>> EG for Servlet 3.1 >> >> Welcome files was never specified as a forward in the first place, since >> that's what the user expects to some extent. Similarly, welcome files >> without a physical file has also been an area with disagreements. >> >> Rémy >> > > Its not a "Forward" filter anyway. Its a "Request" filter, also note > my testing may not have matched the origional reporters situation. (I > had welcome files defined and the file existed). He may have been > using a servlet for all I know. Its not specified. > > Wes > Just a friendly nudge I'm not looking into this any further because I don't know what the correct behaviour is. The servlet documentation isn't clear as stated. I feel I lean the other way than Mark in that I think the bug is valid. However unless someone wants to confirm that its valid I don't want to spend any more time on it, pointless to spend time on something that's going to be rejected anyway.
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