Thanks Charles for encouraging me dig a bit more into this.
Yes, my webapp is the root of a VirtualHost. I've figured out what is
going on now.
The VirtualHost is very simple:
<Host name="host.domain.tld" appBase="/home/scott/sites/host.domain.tld"
unpackWARs="true">
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
directory="logs"
prefix="host.domain.tld_access_log."
suffix=".txt"
pattern="common"/>
</Host>
In the directory /home/scott/sites/host.domain.tld there are *two*
directories, ".svn" and "ROOT".
When I went to http://host.domain.tld/.svn/entries I was actually
getting the subversion entries file from the top level .svn directory,
not "ROOT/.svn". This is why my filter did not see the URL. If I
rename the .svn directory at the top level directory and then go to the
exact same URL my filter is now called as expected.
The docs (at
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/host.html#Automatic%20Application%20Deployment)
tell me (now that I've read them a bit more) that Tomcat is doing
exactly what I'm telling it to - it is automatically deploying the top
level .svn application because it is a directory under the appBase. I
currently have no Context's explicitly defined and it looks like I
should use a combination of setting |deployOnStartup| to false in the
Host element and then have explicit Context elements defined. This
should prevent the automatic application deployment for my top level
.svn directory and subsequently let my filter work for the .svn
directories in ROOT.
Again, thanks for the help.
Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: Scott Dunbar [mailto:sc...@xigole.com]
Subject: Re: Any way to filter URL's with a dot in the directory name?
No, I specified /* as my url-pattern:
and my filter is not called when the URL is
http://www.hostname.tld/.svn/entries
Is your webapp deployed as ROOT? If not, what is the default webapp? It would
be useful to see your entire WEB-INF/web.xml and your META-INF/context.xml, and
the deployment location of your webapp.
The servlet spec is weird here and the url-pattern in a
web-resource-collection. The "." has special meaning that
seems to indicate a file extension, not a directory.
Only in a <url-pattern> (not the URI itself), and only in conjunction with a
leading asterisk.
- Chuck
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