On 25/06/2025 09:17, Rémy Maucherat wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 9:19 AM Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org> wrote:
All,
Servlet 6.2 intends to address a long standing (more than 10 years)
issue with welcome files. Consider the following:
- *.do is mapped to a servlet
- welcome files are index.jsp, index.do
The intention is that the index.jsp page should be used if present and
index.do (which always maps to the servlet) used if it is not. However,
a strict reading of the servlet spec requires that a 404 is returned if
index.jsp is not present.
Most containers have a workaround for this (Tomcat has
resourceOnlyServlets) but Servlet 6.2 intends to fix this properly by
introducing a new element, <welcome-servlet>
The PR for the servlet specification that adds this new behaviour is
soliciting feedback. This is your opportunity to review the change
before it becomes part of the servlet specification.
PR: https://github.com/jakartaee/servlet/pull/881
Issue: https://github.com/jakartaee/servlet/issues/20
Fixing this is a very good idea. The solution looks good. The downside
is that it takes some careful reading to understand.
I think the spec document should include the example you mention:
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.do</welcome-file>
vs:
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-servlet>index.do</welcome-servlet>
I should be able to add that.
Thanks for the review.
Mark
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