I just did a simple test on WebLogic 7.0 and for a JSP or a HTML page
accessed directly through a browser I get the same 404 error. I don't
believe that it will let you access anything under the WEB-INF folder
through HTTP as it is not meant to be used for serving content files. I
really doubt if any app server would allow access to anything under the
WEB-INF directory to a HTTP/HTTPS request as it would mean that any class
file, jar or any other resource would be accessible. Normally you wouldn't
want this kind of behaviour for reasons that you have already pointed out.
I couldn't find anything on BEA's site to confirm or deny my assumptions
though....
HTH,
Greg.
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Hi,
I have a war file deployed on Weblogic 7. I have placed all of my jsp
filesunder /WEB-INF/jsp as a security measure to control�direct client
access to the JSPs. Allclient access is via a front controller servlet,
which redirects to aparticular JSP based on criteria in the request.My
problem is if I make a call something like this inside the
controllerservlet:
...
dispatcher = context.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/jsp/my.jsp");
dispatcher.forward(request, response);
...
I get a 404 resource not found returned to the client. This should be
reallysimple, so I am frustrated with this! What am I missing?This
structure is detailed in the J2EE patterns book, but after going back and
looking at the section again I realize there is a lot of hand waving and no
code examples for this particular part. If I drop the leading slash from
the path I get a NullPointerException, which according to the JavaDocs is
the correct functionality - it explicitly states the path must begin with
a slash and represents the path from the root of current context to the
required JSP/servlet.
I haven't had a chance to try this on another container yet, so perhaps
this is a Weblogic quirk. Also as soon as I post this I am going to try
and move the JSPs out from under the WEB-INF directory just to verify what
the problem really is (ie. all forwarding is not working, or just
forwarding to resources under WEB-INF). Of course having the JSPs out from
under WEB-INF defeats the purpose of this exercise in the long run!
Thanks,
Craig
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