On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Colin Wilson-Salt wrote: > Surely the way to fix this is that a request for http://foo.bar/webapp > generates a redirect to http://foo.bar/webapp/, and a request to > http://foo.bar/webapp/ will serve the default content using forward() or > some equivalent.
Yep, reckon so. I've no problem with blah.../dirname generating a redirect to blah.../dirname/ - it's the forwarding I'm interested in. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jan Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2001 10:06 > > To: tomcat-dev > > Subject: Re: welcome files being forwarded to rather than > > redirected to? > > > > > > On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > > > > > It's not at all clear that the "Persistent URI" article you > > referenced has > > > anything to do with whether a redirect is used for a > > welcome file or not > > > > actually, I was more concerned with exposing implementation mechanisms > > in URIs; and future-proofing so that when index.jsp becomes > > index.csharpsp in the future (only kidding...) I'm not left with an > > unmanageable mess. > > > > > Originally (back in the pre-3.2-final days), Tomcat did the > > equivalent of > > > a RequestDispatcher.forward() to display welcome pages. This caused > > > massive problems for people who didn't understand the > > difference between: > > > > > > http://foo.bar/webapp > > > > > > and > > > > > > http://foo.bar/webapp/ > > > > > > In the former case, any relative urls on the "real" welcome page are > > > broken. This caused bug reports about welcome files not > > working (never > > > mind that using a <base> element in your welcome page would > > have fixed > > > it), which led to the current behavior. > > > > Assuming I want this behaviour and I know the difference, is there a > > preferred mechanism to replace this line in DefaultServlet.java? > > > > > > redirectPath = appendParameters(request, > > redirectPath); > > -- response.sendRedirect(redirectPath); > > return; > > > > Cheers, > > jan > > > > -- > > jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ > > Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Talk is cheap: free, as in beer. As in Real Ale, not that > > Budweiser rubbish. > > > > -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You see what happens when you have fun with a stranger in the Alps?
