In Apache you fix this problem by altering the: UseCanonicalName in httpd.conf, I forget whether it should be "on" or "off". If you're using an Apache front-end to Tomcat then you can stop it there.
On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 13:54 +1100, Oliver Hutchison wrote: > In Tomcat 5.5.7 is there a way to disable the automatic redirect that > happens when a request matches a directory except for the trailing > slash? e.g. On my server the request "/boards" get redirected to > "/boards/" as there is a "boards" directory on the server. > > The strange thing is the redirect seem to happen before any filters or > servlet are allowed to process the request. This is really annoying as I > have a filter that is expecting to see the "/boards" request not the > redirected "/boards/" request. This feels like a bug to me. Shouldn't > the redirect be initiated by the default servlet after any user > servlet/filters have processed the request? > > There is a bug report for this but the comments are not helpful and it > seems to be related to the 5.0 code base. > http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32424 > > Oliver > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
