How can my servlet serve static (or even dynamic) content in my case ? A forward doesn't seem to do the work (see my code below, since a forward would call the servlet again, which would do the forward again and so on...).
-----Message d'origine----- De : Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mercredi, 24. mars 2004 14:15 À : Tomcat Users List Objet : Re: URL redirect problem, even with 'RequestDispatcher' servlet ! / is also known as the default servlet. So your servlet will also need tos erver all static content too. -Tim Hertenstein Alain wrote: > Hi all, > > This question has already been asked before, but the solutions found > in the archives don't seem to work properly. > > I have a web site running on IIS and Tomcat 4.1.24 under the root > context, let's say http://www.mysite.com When people access the URL, > it automatically redirects to the context's default page "index.html", > making the http://www.mysite.com/index.html URL to appear in the > browser. I'd like to avoid this and only have http://www.mysite.com in > the location bar instead. BUT I only want this behaviour for the > default page only, NOT for other pages (f.ex. > http://www.mysite.com/info/home.htm should remain unchanged in the > location bar). > > In the Tomcat list archives, some people mentioned about writing a > servlet which would forward the request to the appropriate page. > Here's what I've done : > > 1) I've added added this in the web.xml : > > <servlet> > <servlet-name>indexredirect</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>test.servlets.IndexRedirect</servlet-class> > </servlet> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>indexredirect</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > 2) I've created the IndexRedirect servlet and added it in the > WEB-INF/classes/etc... directory, whose doGet() method looks like this > : > > public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse > response) throws ServletException, IOException { > response.setContentType(CONTENT_TYPE); > > String requestUri = request.getRequestURI(), > contextPath = request.getContextPath(), > requestedPage = ""; > > requestedPage = requestUri.replaceFirst(contextPath, ""); // > request.getServletPath() seems to do it too, but doesn't always work ? > System.out.println("requestedPage : "+requestedPage); > > if (requestedPage.equals("/")) { > System.out.println("DEFAULT Forwarding request to index.html > !"); > RequestDispatcher reqDispatcher = > request.getRequestDispatcher(response.encodeURL("index.html")); > reqDispatcher.forward(request, response); > } > // Commented out because redirecting to the requested page starts an > infinite loop !!! > /* else { > System.out.println("Forward request to "+requestedPage+"..."); > RequestDispatcher reqDispatcher = > request.getRequestDispatcher(response.encodeURL(requestedPage)); > reqDispatcher.forward(request, response); > }*/ > } > > After testing the http://www.mysite.com/ URL, the page redirects to > index.html the first time, which is fine. But then, I don't know why > but the servlet is called again, detects that the requested URL is > http://www.mysite.com/index.html now, and would go to the "else" > statement (here commented out), and thus forward the request to > index.html again !! Infinite loop... > > My questions are : > - I don't understand why the servlet is called whenever the request > URI is, although the <url-pattern> tag in web.xml is defined as "/" > (so the servlet should only be called when the context's root page is > requested, i.e. http://www.mysite.com/ ?). > - How can I have this thing done ? Is there something I've forgotten > here ? > > Thanks a lot for your help, this problem is really puzzling me... > > Note : I'm not using Apache, so mod_rewrite is not an option for me. > > Best regards > Alain ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. ********************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
