First, a disclaimer: all of my code-spelunking has been against a
relatively old (6 months or so) CVS head of Webware. It may be that things
are different now, in which case a simple "things are different today"
will suffice to get me looking ahead instead of behind :)
Now, on to the task. It seems that Application.serverSideInfoForRequest
is fairly aggressive about matching a URL to a file (be it a content file,
or a Python script, or what have you).
I want to short-circuit this, and have a servlet at a certain level in the
URL hierarchy serve all requests "under" that hierarchy. E.g.:
http://webware.example.com/dav/some/file/path.txt
would be handled by a top-level servlet "dav.py", which would receive the
path "some/file/path.txt" as its argument. Assume that dav is a servlet
within the default Context, and the default Context is mapped to the root
of the webserver.
Is there a straightforward way to do this in the latest CVS (or any recent
release)? If so, has it "always" been so, or is it a recent addition?
If not, I'm thinking that I need to add some new behaviour to
serverSideInfoForRequest, and probably some new servlet config and/or
initialization options to tell the Application that "this servlet serves
everything underneath it". If hacking is indeed in order, I welcome input
on how folks would like to see it done. Otherwise I'll just crash off
through the brush and make my own path (so to speak).
Take care!
- t.
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