Hi all,
Currently the default GET servlet for requests without request extension
streams the resource if it adapts to an InputStream. Otherwise the
resource is dumped by the default behaviour for .txt requests.
I suggest we change this behaviour as follows:
The StreamHandlerServlet tries to stream the resource if it adapts to an
InputStream (as it does now). If the resource does not adapt to a
stream, the following steps are taken:
* if the request URL is not terminated with a slash redirect
to the same URL with a terminating slash
* if the resource has a child resource "index" or "index.html"
(configurable) name, that resource is included ensuring an
extension is set (defaulting to .html). This would be the
analogon to the httpd "DirectoryIndex" directive
* finally a child resource list is built similar to the
httpd "Options Index" directive.
Likewise, the default renderers for .html and .txt might also be
modified. Yet, I am not sure, what to do here: On the one hand it is
very practical to have the resource dump (to help finding errors) and on
the other hand, this is a very uncool behaviour in a publishing
environment. What I could imagine would be to have a configuration
option, which may switch behaviour between "dump the properties" and
"send 404/NOT FOUND or 403/FORBIDDEN". We might even make the status
code configurable.
WDYT ?
Regards
Felix
