That's because you're using the InvokerInterceptor that is mapped to all
/servlet/ requests.
In your server.xml file you'll see the entry:
<RequestInterceptor
className="org.apache.tomcat.request.InvokerInterceptor"
debug="0" prefix="/servlet/" />
It is just a handy tool to use during development that allows you to
call any servlet without having to register it in <servlet-mapping>.
Apparently it accepts both the class name and the servlet name to invoke
a servlet. For servlets that are defined within a package, you'd use
http://localhost/mycontext/servlet/xxx.yyy.mypackage.Quiz (could be that
it must be http://localhost/mycontext/servlet/xxx/yyy/mypackage/Quiz,
not sure) with Quiz being in the appropriate sub-/sub-/subdirectory
under /WEB-INF/classes.
Most servlet-containers will have a similar mechanism, but I don't think
there's really a standard, so for production you'd better use the
standard <servlet-mapping> entries.
Luc Vanlerberghe
Jacob Kjome wrote:
>
> I just noticed something that seems to work for me, but I can't determine
> quite why? Maybe someone can confirm that this is expected behavior or
> not.....
>
> I am running Tomcat 3.2.1 on Windows 2000
>
> It seems that if you have a servlet registered in web.xml like this:
>
> <servlet>
> <servlet-name>quiz</servlet-name>
> <servlet-class>Quiz</servlet-class>
> </servlet>
>
> AND you have the default values in mod_jk.conf:
>
> JkMount /mycontext/*.jsp ajp13
> JkMount /mycontext/servlet/* ajp13
>
> you are able to access the above servlet at either of the following URL's:
>
> http://localhost/mycontext/servlet/Quiz
> http://localhost/mycontext/servlet/quiz
>
> Notice the case difference in Quiz/quiz
>
> It seems that the <servlet-name> provides a rudimentary amount of servlet
> mapping.
>
> I tested this theory by changing the <servlet-name> to "quiza" and testing
> that. After I did that, "Quiz" and "quiza" worked, but "quiz" did not.
>
> NOTE: This was done WITHOUT servlet mapping tags such as:
>
> <servlet-mapping>
> <servlet-name>quiz</servlet-name>
> <url-pattern>/quiz</url-pattern>
> </servlet-mapping>
>
> So, it seems you can very simply (without complex servlet mappings) make
> your servlet case insensitive; that is in First letter upper case java
> style class naming syntax OR all lower case.
>
> HOWEVER,
>
> I am not sure if this is portable accross servers!!!!!!!!!
>
> Can someone confirm that this isn't just a quirk of Tomcat? Should it work
> this way based on the servlet spec???? Is it portable across servlet
> runners???? Does this work on Tomcat 4.0????
>
> Jake
>
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