This is a general servlet api design question. The way servlets (and
ASP) are designed, the only url's that are rewritten are the ones that
you explicitly wrap in the encode method. Was there ever a discussion
about being able to parse all servlet output looking for urls and
rewriting them?
>From what I've read in their doc ATG's dynamo supports this type of
universal rewritting. Every url that points back to the server in every
page served by their engine gets rewritten with the session id if the
browser has cookies turned off.
I realize this would be complicated to implement and might be better
implemented in the webserver, but imagine how much easier it would be to
write web applications that can survive the user turning cookies off.
A recent ZDNet Anchor Desk poll asked visitor's something like 'Are
cookies evil?'. A full 30% of the users responded yes.
Craig McClanahan wrote:
>
> Nic Ferrier wrote:
>
> > >>> Danny Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/25/99 5:22:12
> > PM >>>
> >
> > >I consider URL rewriting a dirty trick (see the hotmail bug),
> > >with too much drawbacks to consider it any longer as a
> > >serious alternative. Browser persistence has become
> > >too crucial for a web-application : 99% of your target audience
> > >can support cookies... no need to become a slave of the
> > >overwhelming amount of (would-be) browsers out there...
> >
>
> One could quibble (a lot) over how accurate the "99%" number is, but even if
> that were the case -- it's still critically important if *your* target market
> is in the 1% category. :-)
>
> Hint: web browsers are *not* the only clients of servlet/JSP based
> applications.
>
> >
> > Come, come Danny.
> >
> > I don't think this is true at all - the latest versions of
> > GNU-Paperclips support URL-rewriting and I can't believe the Apache
> > Jserv people will not support it - Craig? Jon?
> >
>
> Apache JServ 1.0 supports URL rewriting. I was quite astounded to find out
> that Tomcat (the servlet engine inside JSWDK) does not -- now that it's open
> source, that is definitely going to get fixed.
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
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