Yes, it's possible:
- Check section 10, "Mapping Requests to Servlets", in the Servlet 2.2
spec to see how you can write a servlet (or jsp) to handle all such requests.
- Check section 5.4, "Request Path Elements", to see how to get what the
user asked for.
- Check section 6.3, "Convenience Methods", for how to do the redirect
once you've decided where it should go.
Nick
At 11:07 AM 1/4/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>Since it seems that the list is alive and well, although with very
>little traffic, I would like to ask a question which has been bothering
>me for a while.
>
>I am trying to do what I would define as dynamic redirection. What that
>means is that if someone writes an URL like http://myserver/name, I
>would like to look for "name" in a database and redirect the user to
>some other URL. This would allow me to avoid modifying manually the
>configuration file every time a mapping is added,removed or modified.
>
>Is this possible? Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks in advance and Happy New Year!
>
>Huibert Aalbers
