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Daryl,

On 4/25/18 4:08 PM, Daryl Stultz wrote:
> We are upgrading from Tomcat 6 to Tomcat 8.5. We have a servlet
> that extends org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet. We
> override getRelativePath(HttpServletRequest request), that's all.
> 
> 
> The purpose of this servlet is to do a sort of redirect, the
> browser asks for a spreadsheet "my-site.css" which is mapped to our
> servlet. In getRelativePath we return "my-site-prod.css" or
> "my-site-test.css" for example depending on the environment the
> application is running in.
> 
> 
> If I override doGet (calling super) I can see that doGet is called
> but getRelativePath is never called and the browser gets a 404
> error for "my-site.css".
> 
> 
> Anyone know what I need to change to restore the behavior as it was
> in Tomcat 6? I'm afraid I inherited this code so it's hard to say
> why it was done this way.

This would be MUCH easier using url-rewriting than subclassing
DefaultServlet and changing the way it behaves.

I *highly* recommend that you check this out:

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.5-doc/rewrite.html
or
http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/

and ditch the DefaultServlet subclass.

- -chris
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