I have rewritten following reply to MVC thread.
Hope it helps.
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guess, there IS a way to forward the .jsp processing to tomcat's
jsp-servlet, even when you have registered your own servlet to process all
.jps requests.
Instead of using
ServletContext.getRequestDispatcher(url).forward(request, response);
use
ServletContext.getNamedRequestDispatcher("jserv-servlet").forward(request,
response);
It worked for me.
Note: This method does not work if you want to "re-write" the url in your
handler servlet. JSP files processed by the jserv-servlet is always the URL
of the original request.
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Kedar Choudhary.
----- Original Message -----
From: Craig R. McClanahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 1:23 AM
Subject: Re: Servlet in the middle... in the middle.. in the middle
> "Bragg, Casey" wrote:
>
> > Is there a way to do the following?
> >
> > Let's say a user requests /foo/junk.gif, or /foo/test.jsp.
> >
> > I'd like all requests to /foo/* to first be processed by a servlet.
> > The servlet performs some operation (user authentication specifically).
> > If the servlet processing performs normally, I want the request
forwarded to
> > the page actually requested (in the case of .jsp files, the page must be
> > processed by the jsp engine first of course).
> >
> > I've set my Tomcat 3.1 up as defined below. The result is an infinite
loop.
> > A request of /foo/junk.gif is redirected to the servlet and then to
> > /foo/junk.gif (which then is redirected to the servlet and then to
> > /foo/junk.gif... and so on).
> >
>
> This question came up earlier today as well. The bottom line is that you
cannot
> do what you are after in Tomcat 3.x (which is based on the servlet 2.2
> specification). You can do it by using a Filter from the servlet 2.3 API
(which
> Tomcat 4.0 supports). See my expanded explanation on a thread with
subject "MVC
> problem".
>
> >
> > Thanks so much for your help!
> >
> > ...Casey
> >
>
> Craig McClanahan
>
>
