Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Thomas
On 15/07/2013 20:09, Andrew Kujtan wrote: > When you say resource handling are you referring to serving files from > within a jars' META-INF/resource folder? Yes, and more. See the Tomcat docs from the CI system for details: http://ci.apache.org/projects/tomcat/tomcat8/docs/config/resources.html

RE: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Andrew Kujtan
> -Original Message- > From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 1:46 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF > > On 15/07/2013 17:17, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: > >> -Original Message- >

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Thomas
On 15/07/2013 17:17, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] >> Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF >> >> ...I'd encourage you to grab the 8.0.x source, built it and try out the new >> resource h

RE: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Leo Donahue - RDSA IT
>-Original Message- >From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] >Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF > >...I'd encourage you to grab the 8.0.x source, built it and try out the new >resource handling. Feedback welcome. >From here? http://ci.apache.org/projects/tomcat/

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Thomas
On 15/07/2013 15:38, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: >> -Original Message- From: Mark Thomas >> [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF >> >> I'd prefer to see a clearer requirement for it from the user base > > What about a single site with

RE: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Leo Donahue - RDSA IT
>-Original Message- >From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] >Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF > >I'd prefer to see a clearer requirement for it from the user base What about a single site with multiple webapps all laid out with the same header/footer, left/right naviga

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Thomas
On 15/07/2013 10:38, Rainer Frey wrote: > > On 11.07.2013, at 17:36, André Warnier wrote: > >> Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: >>> You mention header/footers, which was in the back of my mind when >>> I posted this. Placing headers/footers in WEB-INF doesn't allow >>> me to re-use these in differe

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Rainer Frey
On 11.07.2013, at 17:36, André Warnier wrote: > Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: >> You mention header/footers, which was in the back of my mind when I posted >> this. Placing headers/footers in WEB-INF doesn't allow me to re-use these >> in different webapps, without having multiple copies of th

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 André, On 7/11/13 11:36 AM, André Warnier wrote: > Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: >>> -Original Message- From: Tim Funk >>> [mailto:funk...@apache.org] Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF >>> >>> Its a best pr

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-11 Thread André Warnier
Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: -Original Message- From: Tim Funk [mailto:funk...@apache.org] Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF Its a best practice to keep your jsp's inside of WEB-INF. Since WEB-INF/ is not allowed to be requested by the browser - its a simple enforcement mechanism to pr

RE: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-11 Thread Leo Donahue - RDSA IT
>-Original Message- >From: Tim Funk [mailto:funk...@apache.org] >Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF > >Its a best practice to keep your jsp's inside of WEB-INF. Since WEB-INF/ is not >allowed to be requested by the browser - its a simple enforcement >mechanism to prevent u

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-11 Thread Tim Funk
Its a best practice to keep your jsp's inside of WEB-INF. Since WEB-INF/ is not allowed to be requested by the browser - its a simple enforcement mechanism to prevent users from direct access to calling jsps. (Since it may be common to have jsp's as snippets for header / footers etc -- and there fo

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-10 Thread Tim Watts
On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 15:08 -0700, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: > When did it start that developers decided to place jsps in the WEB-INF > directory? Was that intended from the beginning, or was it stumbled > upon? My guess is that it was a side effect of MVC adoption -- making views accessible o

[OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-10 Thread Leo Donahue - RDSA IT
When did it start that developers decided to place jsps in the WEB-INF directory? Was that intended from the beginning, or was it stumbled upon? Leo