"André Warnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Guojun Zhu wrote: > [...] > >> > Unfortunately, it seems that the servlet API allows only this in > <url-pattern> specs : > - A string beginning with a / character and ending with a /* suffix is > used for path mapping. > - A string beginning with a *. prefix is used as an extension mapping. > - A string containing only the / character indicates the "default" servlet > of the application. In this case the servlet path is the request URI minus > the context path and the path info is null.
Actually, I don't think that Tomcat supports <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> (although it clearly should under the very brain-dead wording of the spec here). There seem to be other spec violations in Tomcat here, since if you have a one security-constraint for *.do, and another one for /admin/*, then Tomcat considers both of them for a request to /myapp/admin/foo.do. However, the spec (at least for v2.5) says that only the /admin/* constraint should be considered. And this is where the brain-dead part kicks in :(, since Tomcat's implementation makes more sense than the spec. Hopefully someone will fix this in the Servlet 3.0 spec. > - All other strings are used for exact matches only. > > In other words, "/admin/*.do" is not a valid way to match what you want, > since it will match only "/admin/*.do", literally. > > For 20 years at least, there have been 2 widely-used pattern-matching > variations in existence : > - the "file glob" kind of pattern, where "*" anywhere matches any number > of characters and ? anywhere matches one character > - regular expressions > Why the designers of the servlet API found it useful or necessary to > invent yet their own different way of matching wildcards, and a rather > brain-dead one at that, is beyond me. > But so it seems to be. > > This being said, it seems that there exists a "servlet filter" which > allows much more flexibility. I have not tried it myself yet, but I have > seen a lot of nice things written about it. > Check out : http://tuckey.org/urlrewrite/ > > André > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
