Hello, I am new to tomcat and I need to filter the URLs to accept all clients for part of a URL and reject for all clients another part of this URL.
In details, I want: /abc/def/xyz/* : accepts all /abc/def/* : reject if URL does not match /abc/def/xyz* I found that the order in which the filters are done is explained in this link ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17086712/servlet-filters-order-of-execution ). Based on this, I did the following 2 filters: 1) Accept All : this one is the most precise url-pattern and is listed 1st. When matching, I hope to accept all IP addresses 2) Block All : this one is more general and should match the rest of the URL when the 1st fitler does not match. I hope to reject all the IP in this case Here are the filters, in the order that I add them in web.xml : <filter> <filter-name>Accept All</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.RemoteAddrFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>allow</param-name> <param-value>\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>Accept All</filter-name> <url-pattern>/abc/def/xyz/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> <filter> <filter-name>Block All</filter-name> <filter-class>org.apache.catalina.filters.RemoteAddrFilter</filter-class> <init-param> <param-name>deny</param-name> <param-value>\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+</param-value> </init-param> </filter> <filter-mapping> <filter-name>Block All</filter-name> <url-pattern>/abc/def/*</url-pattern> </filter-mapping> The result is that all URLs ( i.e. /abc/def/* ) are jected and /abc/def/xyz/* is never accepted. Is there a way to do what I am trying to do ? Thank you Gilbert
