This was fixed in Tomcat 3.2.1 and I've verified that Tomcat 3.2.2 does not
serve the JSP file in WEB-INF either.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Wan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:20 PM
> To: Craig R. McClanahan; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: tomcat serves .jsp file contained in WEB-INF
>
>
> From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > http://machine:port/appname/WEB-INF/inside.jsp would get served but
> > > http://machine:port/appname/WEB-INF/inside.html would not?
> > Neither one should be served back to a direct client request for these
> > URLs. The server is prohibited from returning anything under
> "WEB-INF" or
> > "META-INF".
>
>
> I've attached a small (4k) .war file which under tomcat 3.2 appears to
> violate this rule.
> Namely, direct browser requests to WEB-INF/inside.jsp are served.
> Is this a known bug? Have I found a bug? or am I just crazy?
>
> > It's legal to access either of these URLs, however, in the
> following ways:
> > * As the destination of a RequestDispatcher.forward() or include():
> >
> > RequestDispatcher rd =
> > getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/inside.jsp");
> > rd.forward(request, response);
>
>
> Excellent, this is precisely what I was hoping.
>
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