On 7 Jan 2003, Matt Parker wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-07 at 04:40, Remy Maucherat wrote: > > I'll -1 this patch unless the new behavior is made optional (and default > > to the current behavior). > > > > Remy > > Okay, it's now an init param which defaults to false. Following are > DefaultServlet.java and web.xml patches.
Hopefully in time this can become turned on by default. This behaviour almost made it into the last servlet spec but got dropped at some point between candidate spec and the release. Since user behaviour is typically to bookmark pages that they're looking at, the redirect behaviour essentially makes the welcome file feature useless (for all the reasons outlined in "Cool URLs don't change"). -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ...You're visualising the _duck_ taped over my _mouth_..? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
