Hi Everyone - I have a requirement to allow for URLs on a site of the format www.site.com/target where 'target' is not a real directory or servlet, but redirects to another page on the site.
To handle this, I have developed a ServletFilter which takes the 'target' off the URL and attempts to do a server side forward to a servlet using the RequestDispatcher. This is working for www.site.com/target. I can get the RequestDispatcher from either the ServletRequest or the ServletContext and redirect to any target servlet with forward(). The problem arises where I try to handle www.site.com/target/ (note the trailing slash). In this case, the RequestDispatcher forwards to the target correctly HOWEVER, all subsequent HTTP GETs for images, css, etc, are being attempted on the wrong directory, /target/. This seems to be because the ServletRequest doesn't seem to adjust its path elements accordingly. For instance, if /target/ is supposed to redirect to target.jsp using forward("/target.jsp") the requests look like: www.site.com/target.jsp www.site.com/target/image.gif www.site.com/target/style.css Of course, /target was never a real directory to begin with :) Now, According to the API doc for RequestDispatcher: "For a RequestDispatcher obtained via getRequestDispatcher(), the ServletRequest object has its path elements and parameters adjusted to match the path of the target resource. " Does anyone have any experience with this issue? Is this a bug? Is there a workaround? Thanks so much, Alan --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]