From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > http://machine:port/appname/WEB-INF/inside.jsp would get served but
> > http://machine:port/appname/WEB-INF/inside.html would not?
> Neither one should be served back to a direct client request for these
> URLs. The server is prohibited from returning anything under "WEB-INF" or
> "META-INF".
I've attached a small (4k) .war file which under tomcat 3.2 appears to
violate this rule.
Namely, direct browser requests to WEB-INF/inside.jsp are served.
Is this a known bug? Have I found a bug? or am I just crazy?
> It's legal to access either of these URLs, however, in the following ways:
> * As the destination of a RequestDispatcher.forward() or include():
>
> RequestDispatcher rd =
> getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/inside.jsp");
> rd.forward(request, response);
Excellent, this is precisely what I was hoping.
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