[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>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.
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>I couldn't find anything on BEA's site to confirm or deny my assumptions
>though....
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>HTH,
>Greg.
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>Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 2002/10/03 12:32:19 PM
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>Subject: [jdjlist] Issue with servlet forwarding on WLS 7
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>Hi,
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>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:
>
>...
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>dispatcher = context.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/jsp/my.jsp");
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>dispatcher.forward(request, response);
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>...
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>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.
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>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!
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>Thanks,
>
>Craig
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I do not know what you want to archive by doing that. But most servers
do not allow you to go to that directory directly. What u do u name your
context then u use it with out th web-info dir in it.
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