The annoying thing about it is, that you cannot use a pattern that says "ignore /protected/include". Thus, you must specify patterns for all subdirectories that shall be protected separately. Matthias
> -----Original Message----- > From: Hassan Schroeder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 2:45 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: url-pattern troubles... > > On 5/10/07, webzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, this should have been simple. But Tomcat doesn't seem > to be doing what I thought it would- > > I have a bunch of jsp files under a directory called > "protected". I want a filter to be invoked when these files > are accessed. I also have a directory called "includes" under > "protected". I DON'T want the filter to be invoked when files > under "includes" are accessed. I cannot change this directory > structure. I used the pattern "/protected/*.jsp" for the > filter in question > > BZZZT. See the Servlet Spec -- SRV.11.2 Your pattern is invalid (and > so is "/*.jsp" -- if that actually worked, it's a bug.) > > The url-pattern isn't a wide-open regexp, so I think you'll have to > change your Filter to ignore the "includes" subdirectory, unless you > can differentiate based on the request type (client request, forward, > include -- see SRV.6.2.5). > > HTH, > -- > Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
