Re: Serving welcome page v. issuing HTTP redirect

2000-11-20 Thread Phil Radden
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > The redirect should be setting an absolute URL in the "Location:" header -- if > it's not, that is a Tomcat bug, because the container is required to create an > absolute URL even if the program specifies a relative one. I will look into it. Many

Re: Serving welcome page v. issuing HTTP redirect

2000-11-20 Thread Craig R. McClanahan
Phil Radden wrote: > There appears to be a change of behaviour between Tomcat 3.1 and 3.2bX > regarding the handling of the top page for a servlet. > > I have a servlet in ROOT context, and wish a particular file, say index.jsp, > to be used for requests for 'GET / HTTP/1.0'. In 3.1, this is wha

Serving welcome page v. issuing HTTP redirect

2000-11-20 Thread Phil Radden
There appears to be a change of behaviour between Tomcat 3.1 and 3.2bX regarding the handling of the top page for a servlet. I have a servlet in ROOT context, and wish a particular file, say index.jsp, to be used for requests for 'GET / HTTP/1.0'. In 3.1, this is what happens. In 3.2, an HTTP re