Hi, Roy,
>> Do you have a <welcome-file-list> in your web.xml ?
>No I don't have that in my web.xml
I am really sorry, I hadn't look carefully enough at your first message.
Here is a summary of different mapping and their effect :
If you map : an you request : you get :
/myfile.html /myfile.html servlet HOME
/mydirectory /mydirectory servlet HOME
/mydirectory/ /mydirectory/mydoc /mydirectory/mydoc
/mydirectory/* /mydirectory/ servlet HOME
/mydirectory/* /mydirectory/mydoc servlet HOME (with extra path
available)
Note that if you forget the leading slash, no mapping will occur.
So, if you map :
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
you always get the HOME servlet and when you request :
http://localhost:8080/search.html
you are just making "search.html" available to the HOME servlet.
You can check this in the HOME servlet with :
String extraPath = request.getPathInfo();
Pierre-Yves
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