-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Kris,
On 4/22/2010 4:48 PM, Kris Schneider wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Christopher Schultz > <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > >> The following filter works as expected on Tomcat 6.0.26 (some changes >> were required to make it actually work... my off-the-cuff implementation >> was lacking a few details). > > For reference, here's the snippet from the Servlet 2.5 Spec: > > SRV.8.2 Using a Request Dispatcher > > To use a request dispatcher, a servlet calls either the include method > or forward method of the RequestDispatcher interface. The parameters > to these methods can be either the request and response arguments that > were passed in via the service method of the javax.servlet interface, > or instances of subclasses of the request and response wrapper classes > that were introduced for version 2.3 of the specification. In the > latter case, the wrapper instances must wrap the request or response > objects that the container passed into the service method. > > But...the proxy is created prior to entering a servlet's service > method Yes, but there's nothing stopping me from placing the filter so that it only wraps FORWARD requests and violating the specification. I'll try that: I'm sure it'll still work. > so it may well appear to be the "original" request for the > purposes of creating and validating a dispatcher and its parameters... It probably doesn't matter: there's no real value in enforcing this particular requirement of the specification, so I'd be surprised if anyone has bothered to do so. Yup: adding <dispatcher>FORWARD</dispatcher> to my filter still intercepts the calls without complaint. With a Servlet 2.3 DOCTYPE to boot. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvQuwwACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAH+ACdHvyK0sJoaDQ1qIbnWA5eD9c8 sccAoL4TyPUWAcvzXTE06vha3QFYUK4s =EehI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
