All, I am working on a wicked filter (it will be the 3rd filter that all webapps should have (yes, referring to http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/11/19/filters.html)
In brief, it's a filter that you can define in front of any jsp, servlet that provides a wait page. It does not require the author to re-write any code. It is declarative via the filter. Here is the home for the project: http://rhoderunner.com/JSPWiki/Wiki.jsp?page=LongRequestFilter Anyway, I got this filter to work under jetty AND tomcat via 2 different ways. My first approach was to use a the HttpServletRequestWrapper, but this did not work for tomcat. Evidently, up in the chain, the real httprequest is being used. When I used (for tomcat) a "FakeRequest", my own object that implements HttpServletRequest, it worked! This did not work for jetty. The problem was that in Jetty, they check to make sure that the object is really *their* request, not some faker. So for tomcat, I can pass in a "FakeRequest", and for jetty, I can pass in the HttpServletRequestWrapper (my original approach did work for jetty). I am interested in hearing thoughts on how I can finish this filter. Why is tomcat calling objects on the wrapper request? Thanks for your time. Here is the code in "ApplicationHttpRequest" of tomcat. I don't think the code is dealing with the requestwrapper, but rather callin g the request directly. void setRequest(HttpServletRequest request) { super.setRequest(request); // Initialize the attributes for this request synchronized (attributes) { attributes.clear(); Enumeration names = request.getAttributeNames(); while (names.hasMoreElements()) { String name = (String) names.nextElement(); if( ! ( Globals.REQUEST_URI_ATTR.equals(name) || Globals.SERVLET_PATH_ATTR.equals(name) ) ) { Object value = request.getAttribute(name); attributes.put(name, value); } } } java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteRequestFacade.getAttributeNames(CoyoteRequestFacade.java:142) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.setRequest(ApplicationHttpRequest.java:512) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationHttpRequest.<init>(ApplicationHttpRequest.java:125) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.wrapRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:921) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doInclude(ApplicationDispatcher.java:547) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.include(ApplicationDispatcher.java:498) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.JspRuntimeLibrary.include(JspRuntimeLibrary.java:822) at org.apache.jsp.example_jsp._jspService(example_jsp.java:76) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:137) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:210) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
