The semicolon approach is what most of the "proper" commercial appservers run
(Dynamo, Websphere, etc.) and is superior in many ways - since this is not a
significant part of the URL per the HTTP standard, the browser will ignore it as
part of the servlet name. This allows you to "pre-rewrite" base URL's for
servlets, and then add the querystring later, or use them in METHOD=GET forms
(if you have an ACTION with a querystring, it gets blown away and replaced by
the form arguments). This has been a bit of a headache for us with JServ (which
uses a querystring arg just like JRun)
It sounds like the problem here is that the URL you're presenting is not being
served by Tomcat and should not be rewritten in the first place.
Cheers
Dave
Charles Baker wrote:
> Thanks. I read the bug report you listed below. I'm
> still not certain from what is says that this has been
> fixed in 3.2.2 or later. Does anyone know? I guess I
> can upgrade since this is just my personal dev box and
> see.
>
> --- Peter Hrastnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It's a know bug. It is listed at the Apache bug
> > database having the bug id
> > 1388. You can find more information here:
> >
> http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1388
> >
> > Bye,
> > Peter.
> >
> > --
> > Mag. Peter Hrastnik
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> >
> >
> >
> > On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Charles Baker wrote:
> >
> > > I've been browsing the archives but still haven't
> > seen
> > > what I'm looking for. Why does Tomcat use ';'
> > rather
> > > than '?' when an URL gets encoded?
> > >
> > > Example:
> > >
> > > URL = "http://my.domain/some_form.htm";;
> > >
> >
> response.sendRedirect(response.encodeRedirectURL(URL));
> > >
> > > Yeilds an url like this:
> > >
> > http://my.domain/some_form.htm;jsessionid=lidfano10
> > >
> > > and a 404 not found error.
> > >
> > > I use JRun at work because my company is
> > predjudiced
> > > against free software, and it uses the '?' to
> > separate
> > > the url and the query string which I thought was
> > > standard. BTW, I'm using Tomcat 3.2.1 and Apache
> > > 1.3.14 on Mandrake 7.2. I saw some workarounds
> > posted
> > > to the list, but I'm curious as to why Tomcat
> > behaves
> > > this way. Does either 3.2.2, 3.3 or 4.0 do things
> > > differently? I know 4.0 is the cutting or perhaps
> > > bleeding edge, but is 3.3 mostly stable though it
> > > hasn't been through beta testing yet?
> > >
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