I believe that this portion of the spec is stating that the contents
of the META-INF directory should not be accessible (you shouldn't be able to
view the contents of the META-INF directory using the web browser, like the
contents of the WEB-INF directory is not available to a web browser).
Randy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin HaleBoyes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 2:57 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: servlet spec section 9.5 question
>
>
> I've started looking into deploying a WAR file to
> distribute my application. I used the "dist" target
> from the sample build.xml file in the tomcat documentation
> to build the WAR file itself (app.name is opf):
>
> <jar jarfile="${dist.home}/${app.name}.war"
> basedir="${deploy.home}"/>
>
> I put the opf.war file into the webapps directory and
> restarted the server and everything worked great!
>
> I also had a look at the contents of the file and noticed
> the standard META-INF directory. But,
> section 9.5 of the Servlet 2.3 PFD specification says
>
> "... a META-INF directotry will be present which contains
> information useful to the Java Archive tools. If this
> directory is present, the servlet container must not allow
> it be served as content to a web client's request"
>
> If I'm interpreting this correctly, what I tried above shouldn't
> have worked since the .war file _did_ contain a META-INF directory.
> I'm using RedHat 7.1 and Tomcat 4.0 RC1.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
> Kevin HaleBoyes
>
>
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