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David Jencks commented on GERONIMO-4647:
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I'd like to try to clarify what the problem is as I understand it.
1. request comes in that is not mapped directly but should get a welcome file
2. request gets to DefaultServlet which tries to figure out it goes to a
welcome file
3. At this point we expect the constructed url to the welcome resource should
be evaluated against the servlet mappings and dispatched appropriately, perhaps
to the jsf handler or servlet. Instead, the DefaultServlet is assuming that
the url points to a file resource (even if that is a jsp which gets compiled
and accessed through the jsp servlet).
I only verified that the problem is in the DefaultServlet in jetty, since I
didn't see this problem in tomcat.
According to http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-936, this is fixed in jetty.
It should work in the jetty7 integration, the jetty6 integration needs to be
upgraded.
I probaby won't get to looking into this soon in tomcat. According to the
jetty issue the correct algorithm is:
1. scan welcome file choices for actual files. If one is found, use it.
2. If none are found, try servlet mappings for the constructed url.
The logic is probably in the tomcat DefaultServlet.
> welcome files with servlet url-mappings
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>
> Key: GERONIMO-4647
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GERONIMO-4647
> Project: Geronimo
> Issue Type: Bug
> Security Level: public(Regular issues)
> Components: web
> Affects Versions: 2.1.4
> Environment: JRE 1.5.0_06, Windows XP
> Reporter: Bobby Lawrence
> Attachments: sampleapp.war, sampleapp.war
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> When you specify welcome files in web.xml Geronimo throws 404 errors if the
> welcome file isn't a valid file resource.
> Values that are URL mappings to a servlet are ignored by the app server even
> through they are valid.
> This means that I can't have a welcome file of "/index.jsf" or "/index.do" or
> "/someservlet".
> The only welcome files that Geronimo seems to not throw a 404 Not Found error
> are actual files found in the web application.
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