On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Shapira, Yoav wrote: > > Howdy, > While I don't particularly care for this particular thread (and thus > don't mind the patch either way), I did point want to make a couple of > comments: > > >This should be a required feature. > > Let's be very clear on what's "required" and what's not. Per SRV.9.10, > "Welcome Files", and specifically to quote: > "The web container must send the request to the first > resource in the WAR that matches."
Yeah, goodness only knows why that got dropped between the final public review version and the finished document. > From the patch implementation point of view, keep in mind that the > default servlet may be invoked too late in the request processing > pipeline (e.g. after filters that redirect), so for the patch to consist > solely of modifications to the DefaultServlet may be insufficient. At > least I think so -- I may be wrong on this point. In tomcat 5.x, this > will be a part of the mapper, which of course is invoked prior to any > client servlets. The patch I've seen contributed relies on an > init-param to the DefaultServlet, and will probably work for most > configurations, but we need to be careful to cover all possible cases, > including the aforementioned filter possibility. I'm not sure exactly what the scenario you outline here is, but anyway: it's not been my experience that people do complex things with filters and still rely heavily on welcome-files - you may have different experience - partly because of the redirect behaviour. -- 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/ Axioms speak louder than words. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
