Carl, I'm quite new to this but I'd guess that the Filter is instantiated at start-up by Tomcat. You might direct your new requests, plus the old requests for the asp pages, to Tomcat, using say Apache. Using a filter you could intercept *.asp and then forward/redirect to the new resource.
--- Carl Olivier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings. > > I have a questions regarding Filter servlets. If a > request is made for a > non-existent/non *.jsp or servlet URI - will the > Filter be instantiated? > Reason I ask is because I want to interect old > bookmarked requests for an > old site - which has been migrated to a new tomcat > based JSP site - however > the old site was ASP based. > > Many users of the old site would have bookmarked > something like: > /index.asp?PageID=16 or something similar - and I am > hoping to be able to > intercept that - using a Filter seemed a logical > choice - and send back a > redirect to the new URL /some.jsp for those > requests. > > Thanks in advance, > > Carl > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]