On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > It's not at all clear that the "Persistent URI" article you referenced has > anything to do with whether a redirect is used for a welcome file or not
actually, I was more concerned with exposing implementation mechanisms in URIs; and future-proofing so that when index.jsp becomes index.csharpsp in the future (only kidding...) I'm not left with an unmanageable mess. > Originally (back in the pre-3.2-final days), Tomcat did the equivalent of > a RequestDispatcher.forward() to display welcome pages. This caused > massive problems for people who didn't understand the difference between: > > http://foo.bar/webapp > > and > > http://foo.bar/webapp/ > > In the former case, any relative urls on the "real" welcome page are > broken. This caused bug reports about welcome files not working (never > mind that using a <base> element in your welcome page would have fixed > it), which led to the current behavior. Assuming I want this behaviour and I know the difference, is there a preferred mechanism to replace this line in DefaultServlet.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.
