Why don't you just have the welcome page in the web.xml contain:
<jsp:forward page="/map*" />
and have "/map*" mapped in web.xml to a servlet? I don't understand why you
think going to a servlet in a problem?
-----Original Message-----
From: Aravind Naidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, August 26, 2001 7:52 PM
Subject: RE: how to make a servlet as the home page
>
>Create an index.html with the following text
>
><HTML>
><HEAD>
><meta http-equiv=REFRESH CONTENT="0; URL=/servlet/com.acme.XYZServlet">
></HEAD>
></HTML>
>
>Ensure that the servlet handles doGet(...)
>
>-- Aravind
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "naveen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 9:29 PM
>Subject: how to make a servlet as the home page
>
>
>> hi ,
>> I am using tomcat and apache, I want to make a servlet as the home page
of
>> my web site,
>> when i access http://www.mysite.com/, a servlet needs to be called
and　the
>> most important thing in this is I need to access HTTP variables like
>Remote
>> Host, etc.
>> thanks in advance
>>
>>
>
>
