[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig R. McClanahan) writes: > 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.
Could Tomcat not work in the way the Apache server does? In response to the first URL (no trailing '/'), a redirect is issued to the second URL (with trailing '/'). In response to the second URL, an internal forward is done to the welcome page. -- `O O' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] // ^ \\ | http://www.pyrites.org.uk/
