Maybe you can try doing this in the web.xml:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>
ServletX
</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
ServletX
</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>pathinfo</param-name>
<param-value>/home/jim/testFile</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
You can get this value by using the getInitParameter("paramname") within
your servlet code
Ram
>From: "Collins, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Calling the same servlet regardless of the URL
>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 18:57:50 -0000
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a servlet: servletLaunch which I want to be called regardless of the
>URL (the web app is in the servletLaunch subdirectory of webapps). For
>example if I entered the URL:
>http://myhost:8080/servletLaunch/servlet/servletLaunch/home/jim/testFile
>
>I want the servletLaunch servlet to be started with /home/jim/testFile
>passed to it as pathinfo. At the moment I am getting Not Found (404). I
>believe tomcat is trying to serve the file
>/servletLaunch/servlet/servletLaunch/home/jim/testFile which does not
>exist.
>I have tried various different configurations for the url-pattern element
>of
>servlet-mapping, none of which I have managed to get to work.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Jim.
>
>
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