-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 André,
On 12/8/2009 1:54 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Independently of the other answers, just 2 notes : > > 1) probably the reason why nobody wants to give you another answer than > to read the specs, is that when you will have read the specs about the > URL wildcards, you will not only have your answer, but also be somewhat > puzzled yourself as to why the specs writers had to go and re-invent yet > another way of doing wildcards all for themselves. Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't go with either standard globbing rules (* = anything, ? = any one thing) or with regular expressions (which can be somewhat inaccessible). The whole "it looks like a glob but it's only a very special case of a glob" is pretty irritating. I just checked, and this foolishness is still in effect for the proposed 3.0 specification. > The additional benefit is that the next time someone on this list asks a > question that is clearly non-sensical and/or in contravention of the > specs, you will be able to tell them : "read the servlet specs". > Makes you immediately sound like a pro. Or an ass. Sometimes the two are interchangeable. :) - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkseq2wACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDlIACaAmVnLpWIohItFZ+P957/ZePB yxAAn12zWcCYScA0FJEjbPpe15guEt8Q =87sb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
