Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-15 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 4:54 AM, Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org wrote: Go read the spec. The JSP Servlet is mapped *based on file extension* not path. heh, how very quaint. Where did they get this idea? from MSDOS? Oh never mind. I don't think I want to know, and I suppose I just should be

Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-15 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
it is built under the surface of the request, I think it should just be /a/path/on/the/web and not a?subject=pathrelation=onarticle=theobject=web :) but yeah, I should take that up with them. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org wrote: On 15/12/2010 14:03, Gary Lawrence Murphy

Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-15 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
Thanks so much for that snippet; I notice in there no mention of filename extensions but instead they talk of parsing the string form and give no special meaning to the dot. It is a difficult question hard to answer in an email without a great deal of study, but to be naive and bold about it,

Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-15 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: A high-volume real-time environment where on-the-fly JSP compilation is allowed and ad-hoc insertion of new dynamic content is allowed? Sounds like madness. yes it is. such is the real world. we

Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-15 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary, On 12/14/2010 5:56 PM, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: oh, and I did try /test.jsp/* even though needing to explicitly match every jsp in the project would be prohibitively inflexible

Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-15 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
well, first I'll have to completely digest the spec before I could answer this and ok, I guess we can throw MacOS in on the blame ;) as a total aside that may work for me, in the URL spec cited above, they used the notation of #extra-material -- what is the java method that returns that extra

Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-15 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
Yeah, that's what I thought as well, moments after asking ;) On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: most user agents aren't going to send the anchor to the server because it's not relevant. -- *Have Blog, Will Travel: blog.teledyn.com* *A

Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-15 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
into the TC7 code and see what I'm up against. On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary, On 12/15/2010 11:40 AM, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: Resin will only work on single CPU although

troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-14 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
I am using Tomcat 6.0.20-2ubuntu2.2 on an AWS-hosted 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 running on Java SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_15-b03) and I am having difficulty emulating getPathInfo() behaviour that works in other servlet containers (jetty and resin) I have a JSP file under ROOT: %...@page

Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-14 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: however when called with http://localhost:8080/test.jsp/this it fails as a 404 not found Actually, this makes sense to me: the default mapping for the JSP servlet is *.jsp. Your path doesn't end in

Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-14 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
oh, and I did try /test.jsp/* even though needing to explicitly match every jsp in the project would be prohibitively inflexible, but there again, it produced a parsing error and the webapp would not load.

Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-14 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org wrote: Actually, this makes sense to me: the default mapping for the JSP servlet is *.jsp. Your path doesn't end in .jsp, and therefore does not match the url-pattern. this is the crux of the problem, and the showstopper

Re: troubleshooting getPathInfo in jsp files

2010-12-14 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
14, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Mark Thomas ma...@apache.org wrote: On 15/12/2010 00:00, Mark Thomas wrote: On 14/12/2010 22:54, Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Christopher Schultz ch...@christopherschultz.net wrote: however when called with http://localhost:8080