going to be the easiest and best way to do this. An alternative (assuming
you're running on top of a J2EE server) is to put a servlet mapping for the URI
you're using in your web.xml file and let a servlet handle the request(s). I
haven't been following this thread very closely, so my apologies if that's
already been suggested.
~Simon
>
> > To explain again, to those new to this discussion, here's what I'm
> > trying to do.. We need the url that the client types in to appear as
> > 'www.somepage.com/welcome' NOT '/welcome.htm' NOT '/welcome/index.htm'
> > and NOT /welcome/.
>
> If you have a directory in your web root called "welcome", then most web
> servers will allow you to get to the default file within that directory
> using "http://whateverhost/welcome". What'll happen is, the browser will
> request that URL, and the server will send a Location header with a slash
> appended, which will redirect the browser to "http://whateverhost/welcome/".
> If you have a default file within that directory, the web server will then
> use it.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> phone: 202-797-5496
> fax: 202-797-5444
>
>
>
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