Er.. thanks for the response, but I understand precisely why Tomcat does not trigger the filter. I was looking for clarification on whether it is Tomcat or WebLogic that is not compliant with the spec (which I *have* read, BTW).
One of the reasons I want to know is that we are using WAS4.x and WLS6.x, which do not include final spec filters. For this reason I have written my own implementation of the spec. My implementation currently behaves like WLS7, and I am wondering if I should change it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 12:49 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: TC4 servlet filter behavior different from WLS7 > > > Hi, > > >For example: > >I have a servlet "/hello", which forwards to "/hello.jsp". > >I have a filter that is mapped to "/hello.jsp". > >Accessing "/hello" in WebLogic will trigger the filter. That doesn't > happen > >in Tomcat. > > It was my understanding that the tomcat behavior here is correct. > > This is because you have NOT defined a filter for the /hello pattern. > You HAVE defined a filter for the /hellp.jsp pattern. Just > because the > servlet at /hello happens to forward to hello.jsp, which matches a > filter pattern, just mean requests to the servlet at /hello should be > filtered. They don't match the filter pattern. > > I would refer to SRV.6.2.4, specifically: > > >This requirement means that the container, when receiving an incoming > >request: > > > >Identifies the target web resource according to the rules of > SRV.11.2. > > > >If there are filters matched by servlet name and the web > resource has a > >servlet-name, the container builds the chain of filters > matching in the > >order declared in the deployment descriptor. The last filter in this > chain >corresponds to the last servlet-name matching filter and is the > filter that >invokes the target web resource. > > I hope I'm not wrong on this one ;) I'd be interested in the > resolution > of this question. > > Yoav Shapira > Millennium ChemInformatics > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
