On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Remy Maucherat wrote: > Also, not doing the redirect would create lots of problems with nested > welcome pages (foo/index.html is a valid welcome page).
Is it ? AFAIK no web server accepts this kind of welcome page. It's true the spec doesn't mention what values are valid ( Is ../index.html valid ?), but giving what is common de facto 'standard' I wouldn't interpret it this way. That can be yet another incompatibility between web and servlets ( maybe Jon will read this - now, not after a year :-), and make even more difficult to serve static files with apache. Costin
