Well I don't know the internals of Resin, so I cannot comment on the
reason, but I can think of a potential work-around:
Assuming you can call http://.../folder/index.html and it works, but
they are distributing http://.../folder/
Add this to your <web-app> section of your resin.xml:
<rewrite-dispatch>
<forward regexp='(/path-to-newsletters/.*)/$' target='$1/index.html'/>
</rewrite-dispatch>
Which will explicitly forward the request to the index.html file
(happens internally already, but this explicitly makes that happen as a
workaround, since the internal mechanism is broken due to some caching
issue).
If the URLs are more complex with parameters, etc you would need to
modify that a bit.
Aaron
On 4/16/2010 8:55 AM, Marco Wingartz wrote:
Hi Aaron,
thanks for your ideas... unfortunately I can be sure that's not an
browser cache or proxy issue... and of course I simplified the problem
a little bit... It's not me calling the empty directory tree, but an
newsletter project of our company uses shortened urls by just
referencing the folder in their emails, not the index-document to make
the link look better... so the caching of 404 will appear as soon as
the first test newsletters are spread at development. Until I get my
hands on the index-document I have already plenty of calls on the
webserver.
The point is, that problem disappears as soon as resin is restarted.
Until then the newsletter recipients will all see the 404 page instead
of the landing page...
We are already fighting with this since a while and find no way to get
around... and for performance reasons we don't like the idea to
abandon resin as webserver and go back to apache or any other
webserver instead.
So if anyone has an idea to enlighten us what influences resins
"long-term memory" of static html-content and where to fiddle with
parameters to shorten the time to live for such content delivered by
resin, please feel free to point us into right direction.
Your idea of a customized 404 page sounds good, but it will not
address the updated hmtl-documents which won't show their changes
either until resin is restarted... we definitely have a problem with
static html-content being kind of resistable to changes until resin is
restarted.
So we still welcome ideas... or maybe someone can find same behavior?
Best regards,
m.w.
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