André Warnier wrote: > Mark Thomas wrote: >> André Warnier wrote: >>> Then I guess I have (at least) 2 webapps : a "/foo" webapp, and a >>> "/foo/bar" webapp. >>> >>> Now a request comes in with the url "/foo/bar/baz/various.jsp" >>> >>> How does Tomcat determine that /foo/bar/baz is not itself a webapp, but >>> merely a sub-dir of webapp "/foo/bar" ? >> >> The longest context path always wins. So in this case any request to >> /foo/bar/... will always be handled by the /foo/bar webapp. >> > I guess I wasn't clear enough in my question. > > What I meant to ask was : considering the apparent path of the URL is > "/foo/bar/baz/", how/why does Tomcat "give up" on the "/foo/bar/baz" > (potential) webapp path, and attribute this to the "/foo/bar" webapp. > > Of course, you and me know that there is no webapp in "/foo/bar/baz", > but we're smart humans who can just see this at a glance. > But how Tomcat know ? > Because there is no WEB-INF there, right now when it checks ? or because > of something we did/did not tell him earlier ?
It maintains an internal list of deployed contexts (web apps) and their associated paths so it knows there is no /foo/bar/baz webapp. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
