> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: Question on servlet determination
> http://localhost:8080/examples/servlets/servlet/RequestInfoExample > I get the example page with pathInfo=null > http://localhost:8217/examples/servlets/servlet/RequestInfoExample/ > I also get the example page with pathInfo=/ > My question is why the top url (with no trailing /) is getting the > request at all, given the url-pattern in web.xml: > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>RequestInfoExample</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/servlets/servlet/RequestInfoExample/*</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> Likely because of these clauses in the spec: The container will recursively try to match the longest path-prefix. This is done by stepping down the path tree a directory at a time, using the '/' character as a path separator. The longest match determines the servlet selected. A string beginning with a '/' character and ending with a '/*' suffix is used for path mapping. (The above is from 3.0, section 12.1, rule 2, and section 12.2, first bullet.) But I haven't looked at the code to see how it's actually implemented. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
