Craig,
So to summarise: I should not use URLs such as http://www.domainname.com/
unless they are intended to be diverted to a welcome file. If I do I'll
create a lot more work for myself. Correct?
Thanks,
Mark
On Monday 22 July 2002 4:18 pm, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Mark Beecroft wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 15:21:52 +0100
> > From: Mark Beecroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "Cox, Charlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: filtering --> 2 servlets
> >
> > 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".
>
> The default servlet mapping ("/") really is just that -- a default for
> requests that are not mapped to *any* other servlet. Therefore, if you
> have a mapping for "/*", for example, the default servlet would never get
> invoked.
>
> You might want to rethink trying to use a default servlet mapping in the
> first place. Among other things, that is how Tomcat implements static
> file serving, so you will already have to re-implement that if your webapp
> needs it.
>
> > Further thoughts?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Mark
>
> Craig
>
> > 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!
> > > >
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