Thanks everyone for the info.... magic mailing list this!
My interest in the default servlet is 2 fold....
A Resin user asked whether tomcat could do this....
<path-mapping url-pattern="/activeadv/*"
real-path="/doc_root/activeadv/"/>
<path-mapping url-pattern="/includes/*"
real-path="/doc_root/includes/"/>
I thought... be kind of cool to add that functionality and maybe extend it
to full paths on HTML PDF files
files... so one can serve up isolated sites installed on a machine (outside
of a web-app)... like for example the SUN tutorial. its a nice way do turn
tomcat into a full document system for entire machine... as well as allow
for some additional mapping... a question that seems to come up over and
over again... naturally JSPs will have to be relative paths.
The other thing... is that if one looks at the default servlet code... the
thing can do XSLT XML transformations, but one cant see that functionality
in the Generic servlet....
So I guess from previous discussion... the thing to do its create a
DefaultHttpServlet.... which extends HttpServlet.
Use Tims trick
{
getServletContext().getNamedDispatcher("default")
.forward(request, response);
return;
}
to pull in the safe functionality... ie exclude things like PUTs... and make
default file serving something that one can turn on and off.... in the
Servlet that
extends DefaultHttpServlet.... probably best way is as overridable
function.... call super if you want default file serving etc...
Then... "Recreate" the XSLT XML inheritable functionality....
Regards... Johnny
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