I would recommend using a Servlet Filter to remap the URL to something a little more traditional, like /view.m?file=/set1/pic1.html. Servlet filters let you do a lot of cool URL munging.
Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Todd O'Bryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 2:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Mav-user] One command for many urls? > > I just downloaded Maverick this morning, and I'm already realizing how > much time I've been wasting the last few months. > > Anyway, I'm trying to write a resource viewer that will present one of > hundreds of jpegs to users depending on which URL they try to access. > For example, > > /view/set1/pic1.html > /view/janesset/pic4.html > > should return pages with the appropriate jpegs in them (along with > window dressing), where the path to the particular jpegs defined by > set1 and janesset are in a configuration file. > > I can do this in a generic servlet by mapping /view/* to the servlet > which reads the configuration file and serves up the appropriate local > resource, and I've done that successfully. Now, however, I want to > check to make sure that people are logged in, have access to the > resource they're trying to view, handle errors robustly, and generally > separate the M, V, and C parts of my code. > > Does Maverick let me map multiple URLs to a single command? If not, > should I use query parameters instead of paths? I like the clean-ness > of the resource looking like a simple web page that somebody could type > into their browser without a lot of strange symbols, but I can't tell > if it's possible to do this. > > Any insight appreciated, > Todd > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > [INVALID FOOTER] ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn [INVALID FOOTER]
