> We want to use a servlet filter to intercept *all* requests that come into
> the web server. Is this possible? It seems to work for all files when I
> put the URL filter as "/" or "/*". But we're also looking to be notified
> when a directory resource is requested. An example of this might be a url
> that looks like so: "http://www.somecompany.com/test". Test is not a
> virtual directory nor is it a directory under our site root. We forward
> these directory requests to a JSP that then produces the appropriate output
> for this directory on the fly.
>
> Has anyone tried this? Or is there another way to filter HTTP requests in
> the Orion web server?
Given that you seem to have worked out how to intercept /*, intercepting
/test/* is a simple extension of that.
Presumably you have something like this in your web.xml
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>WhereStuffGoesByDefault</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
So for /test/* you'd have
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>TestServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/test/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
The problem is working out which order they're considered. I imagine it's
probably the order they're specified, so you'd want the test one listed first
in your web.xml. I'm assuming that by intercepting all requests you want
everything (except test/*) to go to a particular servlet. If you just mean
intercept and feed back whatever resource they asked for, then all you need is
the second code snippet in your web.xml
Trond.
