Bill Barker wrote: >"Edmund Urbani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>hi! >> >>i ran into some trouble with tomcat5 and its slash adding behaviour. >>there's this MS WebFolder client (M$ for WebDAV), that does not seem to >>be able to cope with status 302 redirects in some situations. in order >>to work around this problem i modified the class >>org.apache.tomcat.util.http.mapper.Mapper, so it would not add a >>trailing slash for an URL like http://host:8080/slide. But since I >>really don't want to (and usually don't need to) change anything about >>tomcat, I'd rather have a configuration option for this. I know that the >>old tomcat4 did not do redirects for this either, so I thought maybe >>someone would add a config option to revert to that old behaviour. >> >>if not, is there a any way to prevent this redirect without modifying >>tomcat5's source? >> >> >> > >I'm too lazy to look at the commit log to see what TC 5 version it was >changed in, but if you use <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> for your webdav >servlet instead of <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>, Tomcat will not send the >302 response for a directory request. > > thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!
it works. that's the kind of mail i like to see in my inbox when i get into the office monday morning :) i also had to change slide's "default-servlet" parameter to false to make it work. Edmund --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
