Charlie, Well it's not quite that simple. You see Servlet B is the "default" Servlet and its web.xml file gets processed in advance of mine, so I am left with the problem of how to specify the search pattern "everything but *.html".
Further thoughts? Cheers, Mark On Monday 22 July 2002 12:24 pm, Cox, Charlie wrote: > I'm not sure you need filters for this. > > define your servlet mapping in web.xml to be *.html > > Then you can set up a <welcome-file-list> to go to index.html, which would > route to your servlet based on it ending with .html > > it's that simple. > > Charlie > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mark Beecroft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Sunday, July 21, 2002 8:30 PM > > To: Tomcat Users List; Jacob Kjome > > Subject: filtering --> 2 servlets > > > > > > Good morning/afternoon/evening, > > > > I am using Tomcat 4 and have 2 servlets between which I would > > like to split > > processing. Servlet A needs to process all requests > > corresponding to the > > patterns "*.html", "*.html" and "/". Servlet B needs to > > process all other > > requests. The short question is how can I do this? > > > > I am currently using filters but am finding it difficult to > > cater for the > > pattern "/". The only option seems to be the use of the url > > mapping "/*" > > to invoke a filter class, but then how does processing get to > > Servlet B? If I > > only invoke chain.doFilter() when the pathinfo satisfies the > > conditions of > > Servlet A then I can get Servlet A working normally, but > > there seems no way > > of ever invoking Servlet B with such a configuration. To demonstrate: > > > > http://www.domainname.com/index.html --> Servlet A > > http://www.domainname.com/whatever.htm --> Servlet A > > http://www.domainname.com/ --> servlet A > > http://www.domainname.com/image.jpeg --> no Servlet accessed > > > > What I really would like is a more versatile url-pattern > > element, but does > > anyone have a solution for my current situation... please... > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > P.S. If you help me out I'll by you a pint when you next come > > to England! > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
