On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 09:34:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Reply-To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Tomcat Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Index files ( was RE: cvs commit:
> jakarta-tomcat-connectors/jk/native2/server/apache2 mod_jk2.c
>
> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
>
> > > It's the index.jsp that worries me - combined with precompile jsps.
> > >
> > > That could be an extremely common case - and will fail with the
> > > current implementation.
> > >
> >
> > As a workaround, why don't you just include the JSP source files in the
> > war anyway? One of the things JSPC creates for you is a bunch of "exact
> > match" servlet mappings for the compiled pages, and those will take
> > priority over the extension-match mapping of the index.jsp page to the JSP
> > servlet.
>
> I know, and so far that's the only solution I found to make index.jsp
> work.
> However there are cases where you don't want to distribute the JSP
> source files - and AFAIK the spec allows that.
>
A zero-length file, rather than the actual source, would still fill the
bill :-)
> I'm not really looking for workarounds - but for the 'correct'
> behavior, that we can eventually implement, and eventually a
> clarification to the spec - if this can't be implemented.
>
I know ... a clarification is the important thing.
> The root of many problems is the way the extension mapping
> is defined - in a very different way from what all web servers
> are doing. That creates many integration problems, disables
> the pathInfo for extension-mapped resources, brakes the index,
> and may have other effects in future.
>
> Of course, in this particular case ( index.jsp - without having the file )
> the extension mapping is usefull.
>
> > Sounds like a topic worth raising with the Servlet 2.4 expert group
> > (JSR-154). I'll start a message thread abou this on the EG mailing list.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Costin
>
Craig
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