On 14/06/2019 21:10, Tommy Pham wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm trying to write a lightweight and hopefully simple ContextListener +
> Servlet application but running into 2 issues I'm unable to find resolution
> for and hoping someone would please point me in the right direction:
>
> 1) I'd like to have Tomcat's default servlet serve HTML files only within
> directory /path/ and its' subdirectories. However, I can only get it to
> work with this URL mapping "/path/*". My understanding is that the default
> servlet will serve any files within /path/. Can this be done with URL path
> mapping or do I need to write a custom filter? My servlet's mapping is
> "/". Tomcat's default servlet mapping has "/css/*", "/js/*", "/img/*", and
> "/path/*".
It depends. If there are alternative mappings (with a higher priority)
for all the other static files under /path/* then the DefaultServlet
will only serve what is left.
A filter might be the cleanest way to ensure you get the behaviour you want.
> 2) I Have this small and simple HTML form:
> <form method="post">
> <p><input id="text" type="text" size="80"></p>
> <p><input type="submit" value="enter"></p>
> </form>
> My servlet's doPost is triggered but when I iterate the
> request.getParameterMap(), it's empty. When I tried to
> request.getParameter("text"), it returned 'null'. I do have a filter in
> place but it's only to log all request access to a database backend
> eventually. That filter is currently dumping it to log. I've tried
> disabling the filter but have the same result.
You need:
<form method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
Mark
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