On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Remy Maucherat wrote:
> Hi Craig,
>
> (putting on my Catalina user hat)
>
> I found a case where I think adding the default configuration mapping is done
> wrong.
>
> For example, you can choose to map a servlet to /*, in which case you would
> expect it to handle all requests. That's not what happens because the default
> config will add a mapping of the default servlet on "/".
>
> The mapper will then send a request on "/" to the default servlet, and every
> other URL to the other servlet.
>
> In addition to just checking if the mappings are indentical, I think we should
> check inclusion too (here, / is included in /*).
>
If you have a mapping for "/*" defined, the default servlet should never
receive *any* requests. If it does, the mapper implementation is
broken. Note that it doesn't make any difference whether the loading was
done from the default web.xml or the application one.
A <servlet-mapping> of "/" does not literally mean mapping to the
"/" path. Instead, it is simply a marker that says this is the default
servlet.
> (back to the developer hat)
>
> Is it ok if I implement this behavior ?
>
Please go ahead and fix the mapping if it's doing "/" paths wrong.
> Remy
>
Craig
