"Pierre-Yves Saumont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Or you might use your servlet to display the static file, using the extra
> path information.
>
Well, a web server like Apache isn't tuned just to accomplish this work?
Serving static files isn't an unnecessary burden to a JVM ?
> This technique can be use to map a directory to a servlet. You can then
> access all document in this directory (and subdiretories) with their
static
> path, altough the document are served by the servlet. For example, when a
> user request :
>
> http://www.mydomain.com/jgr/mydoc.html
>
> he gets exactly what he asked for (document mydoc.html in directory jgr),
> but trough the servlet. The user never know he is accessing a servlet,
> altough you can use it to parse the contain of the file and do whatever
you
> want.
>
How can such kind of servlet locate files indenpently from servlet container
and operating system ?
Marco
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