I have a question on the specifics of the servlet spec. Specifically this has to do with mapping URIs to servlets. I have a servlet that serves files for users based on the unix convention ~username/... (even though this isn't necessarily running on a unix system). Till now I have been using JWS as my servlet engine. What I have done is to map /~ to my servlet and this works fine under JWS 1.1 and 2.0. However in looking at the 2.2 servlet spec, it seems to imply that this shouldn't work, that a mapping like /~ should only map to /~, not anything longer. The 2.2 spec states that /~/* should be used for matches that are longer. However, in my case, this doesn't work since what I want is /~*, but the spec suggests that this isn't a legal mapping (at least it only explicitly talks about the behavior of *.xxx for extensions, /xxx/* for path mappings, and /xxx for exact mappings). Is /xxx* allowed by the servlet spec and defined for servlet engines so that I can expect a standard set of behavior. I am worried that I have built functionality under JWS that won't work on any other servlet engine (and with the end of JWS in sight ....) thanks, --Barry ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
