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From: "Bob Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 3:53 PM
Subject: [5.0] Welcome Files
>
> I have been looking into the Servlet 2.4 section 9.10 Welcome files
> stuff. In a nutshell, the spec now allows servlets to be welcome
> files. The can either be an 'exact match' or a 'prefix match.'
>
> I implemented changes to StandardContextWrapper to bring Tomcat into
> compliance. I think it is pretty messy, but then again Welcome Files
> are messy (per earlier posts.)
>
> What do you think? (The patch is for discussion purposes and contains
> a lot of logging)
One easy optimization is to keep a Hashtable of {relativeURI,
WelcomeURIProcessing}. The main problem is dealing with life-cycle, and
dealing with someone dropping an "index.html" file in and expecting TC to
pick it up (which is why I dropped the Hashtable idea in 3.3).
>
> Cheers,
> -bob
>
>
>
>
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