> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > > > 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;
Also, not doing the redirect would create lots of problems with nested welcome pages (foo/index.html is a valid welcome page). Remy
