Thanks Terrence!
Cheers,
Chris
On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Terence M. Bandoian wrote:
> On 1:59 PM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote:
>> Thanks for your reply Chuck.
>>
>> It looks like you can do what I'm suggesting, but it's pretty complex. I'm
>> also
>> wondering why this isn't part of Tomcat proper. It would seem to be a very
>> useful tool to include.
>>
>> An ALv2 licensed type of filter that does things like the URLRewrite Filter.
>> Another thing too is that this filter seems to do a huge superset of what
>> I'm actually looking for. I'm really just looking for something simple, with
>> a
>> limited config, something like:
>>
>> <url path=fictionbooks"
>> origPath=books">
>> <param name=ategory" value="fiction"/>
>> <param name=omething else" value="${env.SOMEPROPERTY}"/>
>> </url>
>> ....
>>
>> I might just write a plugin that does that and contribute it back to the
>> Apache Tomcat community. Would folks here find that useful?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Chris
>>
>> On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:03 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
>>
>>>> From: Mattmann, Chris A (388J) [mailto:[email protected]]
>>>> Subject: Is there a way to bake in URL parameters to a URL path?
>>>> What I would like to be able to do is to set up, via
>>>> configuration, the ability to map a new URL, say:
>>>>
>>>> http://myhost/fictionbooks
>>>>
>>>> To
>>>>
>>>> http://myhost/books?category=ction
>>> The usual way to do this is with a filter, and the usual filter is the one
>>> here:
>>> http://www.tuckey.org/urlrewrite/
>>>
>>> - Chuck
>>>
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>
> Hi, Chris-
>
> You might also consider using, for example:
>
> http://myhost/books/fiction
>
> And then map your servlet as:
>
> <servlet-mapping>
> <servlet-name>your_books_servlet</servlet-name>
> <url-pattern>/books/*</url-pattern>
> </servlet-mapping>
>
> Somewhere, possibly in your books servlet, you'd have to extract the
> category (fiction, in this case) from the path info.
>
> -Terence Bandoian
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