hello,I found this in the servlet specification: " • The deployment descriptor lists the following welcome files. <welcome-file-list> <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file> <welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file> </welcome-file-list> • The static content in the WAR is as follows /foo/index.html /foo/default.jsp /foo/orderform.html /foo/home.gif /catalog/default.jsp /catalog/products/shop.jsp /catalog/products/register.jsp • A request URI of /foo will be redirected to a URI of /foo/. • A request URI of /foo/ will be returned as /foo/index.html. • A request URI of /catalog will be redirected to a URI of /catalog/. " which matches what David said.
2009/7/23 Caldarale, Charles R <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> > > From: David Smith [mailto:d...@cornell.edu] > > Subject: Re: is there any difference? > > > > I'm fairly sure there is no difference between the two. > > There's no effective difference, but the HTTP RFC requires the trailing > slash when a specific resource is not in the URL. That's why the browser > adds the slash automatically to the host name URL, and the server sends a > 302 back when the URL does not target a specific resource. > > As you might expect, Tomcat does follow the HTTP RFC. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > >
