Matt Parker wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 12:14, Hans Bergsten wrote: >> Matt Parker wrote: >> > I'd like to suggest that catalina perform a forward, rather than a >> > redirect, for requests that end with '/'. With a redirect, special >> > configuration is necessary for proxy servers to work correctly. Also, a >> > forward doesn't require an additional round trip to the client--a >> > redirect must get back to the client and the client then issues a new >> > request. I've tested this under Linux. Thanks! >> >> You mean requests that do _not_ end with '/', right? Unfortunatly, >> you must do a redirect in this case so that the browser can resolve >> relative paths in the page correctly. If you use a forward, it can't >> do so correctly.
> No, I mean requests that _do_ end with a trailing slash, but that should > be resolved to one of the files specified in the web application's > <welcome-file-list>. This is similar to Apache's DirectoryIndex > directive. Maybe the following Apache documentation snippet can explain > it more clearly than I can: > > "The DirectoryIndex directive sets the list of resources > to look for, when the client requests an index of the directory > by specifying a / at the end of the a directory name." > > For Apache, this is index.html by default. When Apache receives a > trailing slash (e.g. /foo/bar/), it resolves index.html and returns it. > Note that it does _not_ send a redirect to index.html. The redirect > occurs only when there is no trailing slash at the end of a directory > request (e.g. /foo/bar is redirected to /foo/bar/, which is then > resolved to index.html) > > So tomcat's behavior is actually going against what Apache does. The problem is that once again the servlet spec defines a behavior that is different from the common practices on web servers. The welcome-file-list can include more than index.html - you may have foo/index.html, etc ( i.e. things in other dirs ). That means #anchors would break if we don't do redirect. A second reason for doing redirects: a redirect will let the web server handle the file serving ( if the index.html is a static file - or some resource that apache can handle ). A third reason: it's safer :-) Costin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
