-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 André,
On 11/5/14 10:31 AM, André Warnier wrote: > Christopher Schultz wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 >> >> All, >> >> I was reading the Wikipedia entry on .properties format >> yesterday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.properties) and I saw a >> mention of Apache Tomcat that doesn't make any kind of sense to >> me: >> >> " In Apache Tomcat the exclamation mark denotes a Negation >> operator when used as the first non blank character in a >> line[citation needed]. " >> >> I'm the one that added the "[citation needed]" with a note that >> I think this is false. >> >> Does anyone know if there was some kind of ancient version of >> Tomcat that read its own .properties files and added some kind of >> magic to do what the above says? I think it's a complete >> fabrication with no basis in reality. >> >> Any ideas? >> > > Maybe a very indirect reference to : > http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/reference/uriworkermap.html > > (see : Exclusions and rule disabling) Good call. This actually might be the source of that text. > but, like you, I think that this reference is quite irrelevant in > that Wikipedia article. I agree. This is one single instance of one file that typically ends in ".properties" that has these semantics. It's not even correct to say that Apache Tomcat does this... it's really Apache mod_jk that does this, and mod_jk isn't a Java program (though of course, .properties isn't exclusive to the Java world). I'm sure that mod_jk doesn't follow the exact rules of Java .properties specifications like using \ as an escape character, trimming leading spaces, etc. I think I'll update the Wikipedia article. Rather than removing the text, I think I'll move it into another section and explain. Thanks, - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJUWkSkAAoJEBzwKT+lPKRYsvUP/3+jCHDiAkVhVZJOYB9eqd0V RIlTwxM0nJ5aT8E00IvPtzKY96wm1tk1ealNtYBPz8Y80IQ+8qSunNfVgTxHfWX+ bUjm09JNRoNeic2QDBMGzgVUtCGRZ98CEWrbMmbk2WW6cWN/q15kgt283INe8x9B fPz2GWSxUMUxbSMJJITXa4Iy9MzrgY3FLVlz4+86UosBla2GrJisO/gK2MWhLi2H m1EB8+eBk3gGfti7aiyxcuUo9IRHz30Er5VCoMWbmpSdRMURkid3sIb1jHuKYcB7 fDaq7TB+2GZPkg/jfSGiopkqgmZsUhN/N0kNghKj8lmKC5uRGFT8CEPWbLlnFNvN 2bvDpAtc9jwaMUWGWuFbcM7O50Gxl/1JmnuxfHBfpQ68jPUE2VypOFQcik7RZtYx fAPwSnETWNozhhDvTziZOOGb2qcLz7eEH7WsWeaTI1G0A1fqCeOWUjx2pIeDIHtG qObh51c0+iymlYBh0DE/PS5jb3s5PN2m4Jp6GFGqbKuaTIXVe6T+Jl/2xwaZ8YxO SY4Upv4scnFPJTJzIBqbI8zK/hFwjFnZbfD5MXs65LEzgs9gSrXNPp0t2r8pVHG8 bNHLtRhoiQjnlg1s+EuoiGqDHwO7HwpVD4045/U/cGpkD+2CltsIQ0aX0JSiVIoG Vvg1GLhJqc+3rYCduvBo =VJ5E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
