In Tomcat 4.1, a request to a directory containing a welcome-file would
*redirect* the user to a URL with any applicable welcome-file's name
appended. In Tomcat 5.5, the request is instead *forwarded* to the welcome
file.
Is there a way to make Tomcat 5.5 act like Tomcat 4.1 in this respect?
For example:
I have a web.xml which contains:
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
In Tomcat 4.1, a request to http://www.mysite.com/directory/ makes the
browser refresh with a URL of http://www.mysite.com/directory/index.jsp
In Tomcat 5.5, the same request leaves the browser with the same URL
http://www.mysite.com/directory/.
BACKGROUND:
I'm using Tomcat 5.5.17 on Windows XP, and unfortunately, my application is
dependent on the redirect behavior of Tomcat 4.1 because my JSPs use
HttpServletRequest.getRequestURI() to find the name of the JSPs themselves.
The JSPs pull their content from the database based on the URL being
requested. So, if the browser's URL bar reads
http://www.mysite.com/directory/index.jsp, the 'index.jsp' queries the DB
for content based on the path '/directory/index.jsp'. Conversely, if the
browser's URL bar reads http://www.mysite.com/directory/, the same JSP looks
for database rows using the path '/directory/'. Naturally, because Tomcat
5.5 acts differently, similar requests receive different content.
I realize that populating content based on what's in the URL bar is not the
best design, but I can't seem to find another way to definitively get the
name of the actual JSP being requested. If anybody knows of a method similar
to getRequestURI(), but which knows the name of the JSP being requested, it
would help tremendously.
Thanks,
Todd
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