Thanks Mark, found some good info. Another question: Is is possible to force a forwards for welcome pages with Tomcat. Is there an engine setting for that? Or would I be forced to change the Tomcat source. I notice with other web servers (i.e. IIS) I can specify a default page which returns HTTP 200 code instead of redirect codes.
Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 3:19 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Why does tomcat redirect to welcome files Jim Kennedy wrote: > I have setup Tomcat to use index.html as the only welcome file. I > noticed that the engine redirects to index.html. I'm wondering why > that is the case. I would prefer Status: HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Not: Status: HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily <spec quote section="SRV.9.10"> The container may send the request to the welcome resource with a forward, a redirect, or a container specific mechanism that is indistinguishable from a direct request. </spec-quote> There is also the issue of security constraints. See http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-dev&m=110980317127394&w=2 for a discussion. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
