As Craig said, look at the Specification. To quote 6.2.4, page 48: <quote> The order the container uses in building the chain of filters to be applied for a
particular request URI is 1. The url-pattern matching filter-mappings in the same order that these ele-ments appear in the deployment descriptor, and then 2. The servlet-name matching filter-mappings in the same order that these ele-ments appear in the deployment descriptor. </quote> Regards, Will Hartung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Hookom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Tomcat Users List'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 11:35 AM Subject: RE: Filter order of operation > Cheers, I did a search previously on sun's site but everything seemed to > only skim the surface. > > Jacob Hookom > Comprehensive Computer Science > University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 1:13 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Filter order of operation > > > > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Jacob Hookom wrote: > > > Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 12:54:52 -0500 > > From: Jacob Hookom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Tomcat Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Filter order of operation > > > > I know that a single request can come through multiple Filters in a > > chain, I'm wondering if there's any reliable way to ensure precedence > in > > the chain of operation? > > > > Browse to <http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html>. > > Download the Servlet 2.3 specification. > > Read Chapter 6 -- in particular 6.2.4. > > > Jacob Hookom > > Comprehensive Computer Science > > University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire > > > > Craig > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.375 / Virus Database: 210 - Release Date: 7/10/2002 > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.375 / Virus Database: 210 - Release Date: 7/10/2002 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>