> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 7:39 PM
> To: Tomcat Developers List
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] forward instead of redirect for welcome files
> 
> 
> 
> > Verified the following:
> > 
> > http://foo/bar#anchor
> > http://foo/bar/#anchor
> > 
> > with a welcome-file of:
> > test/test.jsp
> > 
> > and was correctly forwarded to:
> > 
> > http://foo/bar/test/test.jsp#anchor
> > 
> > 
> 
> okay, I was a little premature (no jokes please). if the 
> welcome file itself has a relative link off of it, then it 
> breaks. so that <a href='foo.jsp'> on test.jsp will try to go 
> to http://foo/bar/foo.jsp rather than http://foo/bar/test/foo.jsp
> 
> i'll see if i can fix that. sorry...
> 

If you want to mirror what Apache HTTPD does:

No slash present --> append slash (only!) and redirect
Slash present --> internally forward to welcome-file page

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