RE: [PATCH] forward instead of redirect for welcome files

2003-02-20 Thread Jan Grant
experience that people do complex things with filters and still rely heavily on welcome-files - you may have different experience - partly because of the redirect behaviour. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://io

Re: [PATCH] forward instead of redirect for welcome files

2003-01-08 Thread Jan Grant
rk pages that they're looking at, the redirect behaviour essentially makes the welcome file feature useless (for all the reasons outlined in "Cool URLs don't change"). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 92

System.setProperty() virtualisable inside a webapp?

2002-11-27 Thread Jan Grant
ghtly different fashion. Is it possible (currently, or with classloader tweaks) to "virtualise" the set of properties available through the System object to each web application? Cheers, jan PS. I'd appreciate a CC: on this so it lands in the right mailbox. -- jan grant, ILRT, Univers

Re: welcome files being forwarded to rather than redirected to?

2001-10-05 Thread Jan Grant
e file for the reason above; descending into a nested contained webapp is possible, however, and the forward code should ensure that this is handled properly. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am now available for general use under a modified BSD licence.

RE: welcome files being forwarded to rather than redirected to?

2001-10-04 Thread Jan Grant
On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Jan Grant wrote: > On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Colin Wilson-Salt wrote: > > > Surely the way to fix this is that a request for http://foo.bar/webapp > > generates a redirect to http://foo.bar/webapp/, and a request to > > http://foo.bar/webapp/ will serve t

RE: welcome files being forwarded to rather than redirected to?

2001-10-04 Thread Jan Grant
p, reckon so. I've no problem with blah.../dirname generating a redirect to blah.../dirname/ - it's the forwarding I'm interested in. > > > -----Original Message- > > From: Jan Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:06 > &g

Re: welcome files being forwarded to rather than redirected to?

2001-10-04 Thread Jan Grant
rvlet.java? redirectPath = appendParameters(request, redirectPath); -- response.sendRedirect(redirectPath); return; Cheers, jan -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Talk is cheap: free, as in beer. As in Real Ale, not that Budweiser rubbish.

welcome files being forwarded to rather than redirected to?

2001-10-03 Thread Jan Grant
I'd like to see the contents of .../webapp/index.html, but _not_ see a redirect to http://foo.bar/webapp/index.html -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( echo "ouroboros"; cat ) &

Re: tomcat 3.2.1: blah/ => blah/index.jsp: how to prevent this?

2001-04-11 Thread Jan Grant
I sent the original to tomcat-user but, on perusing the source, it appears this list might be a better target. On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jan Grant wrote: > Using tomcat 3.1, I could create an index.jsp file which would display > properly when the user requested the base directory. > >

Re: tomcat 3.3m2: blah/ => blah/index.jsp: how to prevent this?

2001-04-11 Thread Jan Grant
n On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Jan Grant wrote: > (Apologies for double sightings, mail barf) > > I sent the original to tomcat-user but, on perusing the source, it > appears this list might be a better target. > > On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jan Grant wrote: > > > Using tomcat 3.1,

tomcat 3.3m2: blah/ => blah/index.jsp: how to prevent this?

2001-04-11 Thread Jan Grant
(Apologies for double sightings, mail barf) I sent the original to tomcat-user but, on perusing the source, it appears this list might be a better target. On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Jan Grant wrote: > Using tomcat 3.1, I could create an index.jsp file which would display > properly when th