Try to create a servlet-mapping in your web.xml that directs all requests in a directory to your servlet / JSP. For example, if you put:

<servlet-mapping>
 <servlet-name>VirtualFileServlet</servlet-name>
 <url-pattern>/vfiles/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

All URLs beginning with [context]/vfiles will be redirected to the VirtualFileServlet. Consult the servlet specification for details on the pattern matching algorithm, to know which mappings will be overriden by this declaration :-)

HTH,
Rodrigo

Duncan wrote:

Don't know if this is possible with tomcat but;

I need people to be able to request virtual files in a directory of a
web application.

As in:  A user would request a file (which doesn't exist). This would
call a jsp page which would return output based on the name of the file
requested, but the user would still see the filename as the one which
they originally requested.

I thought that perhaps changing the 404 error page to my jsp file may
work, but is it possible to set the 404 error page for just one
directory? I would prefer a differant method if there is one.

Thanks for any help anyone can give.

Duncan Smith
Decker Telecom Ltd




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