Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Rainer Frey
On 11.07.2013, at 17:36, André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com wrote: Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: You mention header/footers, which was in the back of my mind when I posted this. Placing headers/footers in WEB-INF doesn't allow me to re-use these in different webapps, without having multiple

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Thomas
On 15/07/2013 10:38, Rainer Frey wrote: On 11.07.2013, at 17:36, André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com wrote: Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: You mention header/footers, which was in the back of my mind when I posted this. Placing headers/footers in WEB-INF doesn't allow me to re-use these in

RE: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Leo Donahue - RDSA IT
-Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF I'd prefer to see a clearer requirement for it from the user base What about a single site with multiple webapps all laid out with the same header/footer, left/right navigation styles ? - all

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Thomas
On 15/07/2013 15:38, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF I'd prefer to see a clearer requirement for it from the user base What about a single site with multiple webapps all laid out with the same

RE: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Leo Donahue - RDSA IT
-Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF ...I'd encourage you to grab the 8.0.x source, built it and try out the new resource handling. Feedback welcome. From here? http://ci.apache.org/projects/tomcat/tomcat8/docs/building.html

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Thomas
On 15/07/2013 17:17, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF ...I'd encourage you to grab the 8.0.x source, built it and try out the new resource handling. Feedback welcome. From here? http

RE: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Andrew Kujtan
-Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 1:46 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF On 15/07/2013 17:17, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: -Original Message- From: Mark Thomas [mailto:ma...@apache.org

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-15 Thread Mark Thomas
On 15/07/2013 20:09, Andrew Kujtan wrote: When you say resource handling are you referring to serving files from within a jars' META-INF/resource folder? Yes, and more. See the Tomcat docs from the CI system for details: http://ci.apache.org/projects/tomcat/tomcat8/docs/config/resources.html

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-12 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 André, On 7/11/13 11:36 AM, André Warnier wrote: Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: -Original Message- From: Tim Funk [mailto:funk...@apache.org] Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF Its a best practice to keep your jsp's inside of WEB-INF. Since WEB

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-11 Thread Tim Funk
Its a best practice to keep your jsp's inside of WEB-INF. Since WEB-INF/ is not allowed to be requested by the browser - its a simple enforcement mechanism to prevent users from direct access to calling jsps. (Since it may be common to have jsp's as snippets for header / footers etc -- and there

RE: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-11 Thread Leo Donahue - RDSA IT
-Original Message- From: Tim Funk [mailto:funk...@apache.org] Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF Its a best practice to keep your jsp's inside of WEB-INF. Since WEB-INF/ is not allowed to be requested by the browser - its a simple enforcement mechanism to prevent users from direct access

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-11 Thread André Warnier
Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: -Original Message- From: Tim Funk [mailto:funk...@apache.org] Subject: Re: [OT] WEB-INF Its a best practice to keep your jsp's inside of WEB-INF. Since WEB-INF/ is not allowed to be requested by the browser - its a simple enforcement mechanism to prevent

[OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-10 Thread Leo Donahue - RDSA IT
When did it start that developers decided to place jsps in the WEB-INF directory? Was that intended from the beginning, or was it stumbled upon? Leo

Re: [OT] WEB-INF

2013-07-10 Thread Tim Watts
On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 15:08 -0700, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: When did it start that developers decided to place jsps in the WEB-INF directory? Was that intended from the beginning, or was it stumbled upon? My guess is that it was a side effect of MVC adoption -- making views accessible