Great, you saved my week. I was too upset to read the release. I thought it
was only an explanation about the new "features".

Thanks,

Luis.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Hans Bergsten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 9:49 PM
Subject: Re: Question on documentation...


> Luis A wrote:
> > Hans, maybe you can help me,
> >
> > Is there a way to restore the unsecure mode? The students have different
> > Servlet names, the broadband access ones have burned CDs for the others,
and
> > they have a deadline. I do not think I will have the time needed to read
the
> > documentation and instruct a simple patch or mod. What do you think?
>
> Didn't I say "see the [Tomcat 4.1.12] release notes for details"? If
> you do, you find this:
>
>    Starting with Tomcat 4.1.12, the invoker servlet is no longer
>    available by default in all webapp. Enabling it for all webapps is
>    possible by editing $CATALINA_HOME/conf/web.xml to uncomment the
>    "/servlet/*" servlet-mapping definition.
>
> Hans
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Hans Bergsten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2002 8:33 PM
> > Subject: Re: Question on documentation...
> >
> >
> >
> >>Luis A wrote:
> >>
> >>>Man, you must be kidding. So the tutorial I just wrote and emailed to
my
> >>
> > 32
> >
> >>>students will not work without the web.xml changes? Are you sure?
> >>
> >>Yes, I'm sure. URL mapping has been in the Servlet spec since 2.0 (and
> >>was an option in JWS before the API was formally specified, I believe),
> >>while the "/servlet" default mapping has _never_ been in the spec (even
> >>though most web containers have supported it for a long time). The
> >>behavior of an "invoker" mapped to a "/servlet" URL was first identified
> >>as a security risk back in the Servlet 2.0/2.1 days.
> >>
> >>Hans
> >>
> >>
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Hans Bergsten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>>Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:58 PM
> >>>Subject: Re: Question on documentation...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Paul Toyn wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>The following is a snippet from the Jakarta-Tomcat configuration and
> >>>>>testing documentation:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Once you compile HelloServlet.java, put HelloServlet.class in
> >>>>>install_dir/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes. After compiling the code,
> >>>>>access the servlet with the URL http://localhost/servlet/HelloServlet
> >>>>>... You should get a simple HTML page that says "Hello". If this URL
> >>>>>fails but the test of the server itself succeeded, you probably put
the
> >>>>>class file in the wrong directory.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I've followed the example and everything is working up to the point
> >>>>>above.   I compiled the java code and it compiled without a hitch,
but
> >>>>
> > I
> >
> >>>>>do get a 404 error when I try the URL. The test of the server did
> >>>>>succeed.  I placed the class file into the folder as indicated.   Is
> >>>>
> > the
> >
> >>>>>documentation correct?  Where does the folder "servlet" get involved?
> >>>>>What am I doing wrong?
> >>>>
> >>>>Is this with Tomcat 4.1.12? If so, it's because the "invoker" (the
> >>>>servlet mapped to the "/servlet/*" path) is disabled by default
starting
> >>>>with this version due to security concerns. See the release notes for
> >>>>details.
> >>>>
> >>>>In general, you should use explicit mappings for all servlets instead
> >>>>of using the "invoker". Add this to the web.xml file for the
application
> >>>>(e.g. webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml for the Tomcat default
application):
> >>>>
> >>>>  <servlet>
> >>>>    <servlet-name>hello</servlet-name>
> >>>>    <servlet-class>HelloServlet</servlet-class>
> >>>>  </servlet>
> >>>>  ...
> >>>>  <servlet-mapping>
> >>>>    <servlet-name>hello</servlet-name>
> >>>>    <url-pattern>/hello/*</url-pattern>
> >>>>  </servlet-mapping>
> >>>>
> >>>>After restarting the web container (Tomcat), you can use a URL like
> >>>>this to invoke it:
> >>>>
> >>>>  http://localhost:8080/hello
>
> --
> Hans Bergsten           [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gefion Software         http://www.gefionsoftware.com
> JavaServer Pages        http://TheJSPBook.com
>
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