I have opened a bug report against WebLogic (case # 358813). 
It will be interesting to see what they do with it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Funk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 1:41 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: TC4 servlet filter behavior different from WLS7
> 
> 
> See section 6.1.1 of the Spec 2.3
> "When the container receives the incoming request, it takes the first 
> filter instance in the list and calls its doFilter() method, 
> passing in 
> the ServletRequest and ServletResponse, and a reference to the 
> FilterChain object it will use."
> 
> Therefore filters are only valid for the incoming request. The filter 
> chain should NOT be invoked for a RequestDispatcher.forward().
> 
> Also see this email from Craig about this:
> http://archives2.real-time.com/pipermail/tomcat-users/2002-Sep
tember/078864.html
> 
> 
> Rob Worsnop wrote:
> > 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
> >>
> > 
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