Hi Andy -
Control of what to handle in tomcat and how to forward is fairly
limited. (someone posted the relevant parts of the servlet spec)
What I do is have tomcat forward all requests to spring, except for ones
I really want tomcat's "default" servlet to handle (static stuff like
images, css), so I have the following in the web.xml
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.gif</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.png</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>my_spring_dispatcher</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
The control you have on url-mapping is much finer in spring - so why not
do everything you want there... This __does__ mean you have to handle
404 etc type problems within spring (but again, quite easy to have a
catch-all handler for these).
I only do the "default" mappings so spring doesn't need to handle
obviously static resouces.
hth
Tim
Andy wrote:
Hi,
Is there anyway to get Tomcat to convert a request such as
myserver.com/directory into myserver.com/directory/index.htm.
The reason for this is that in Spring you have to specify a
wild card to match against the URL path in order to invoke
the DispatcherServlet, if this wild card is *.htm then a
requested without index.htm in it results in a 404 from Tomcat.
i.e. myserver.com/directory
- gives a 404 response
myserver.com/directory/index.htm
- invokes Spring to deal with the request
Perhaps this is an issue I can solve within Spring but
thought I'd try the Tomcat angle first.
This is what I have in my web.xml for Spring -
<servlet>
<servlet-name>abc</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-cl
ass>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>abc</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.htm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
Thanks,
Andy.
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