were to place config files

[Peter Thomas]

Hi,

I have some trouble with a configuration file for my servlet. At first I
placed it in the web-inf directory as tomcat does not serve files from that
directory to the net.
But when I tried to access it with

URL configURL = mServletContext.getResource("/Web-inf/foobar.xml");

I get a null-pointer and tomcat tells me that it is an unsafe path?!?

Then I put the file in another subdirectory and tried to block any access to
it, but failed. Now I could read the file, but everyone else could too... At
the end of this mail is part of my web.xml.

I am using tomcat 3.2.1 on a NT-Server. I suppose there is a quite simple
solution to this, but I could not find it. So thanks a lot for any help.

Regards,
Peter





    <security-constraint>
        <web-resource-collection>
            <web-resource-name>ConfigFiles</web-resource-name>
            <url-pattern>/servlet-config/*</url-pattern>
            <http-method>DELETE</http-method>
            <http-method>GET</http-method>
            <http-method>POST</http-method>
            <http-method>PUT</http-method>
            <user-data-constraint>
                <transport-guarantee>CONFIDENTIAL</transport-guarantee>
            </user-data-constraint>
            <auth-constraint>
                <role-name>admin</role-name>
            </auth-constraint>
        </web-resource-collection>
    </security-constraint>

    <login-config>
        <auth-method>BASIC</auth-method>
        <realm-name>Admin</realm-name>
    </login-config>