Christopher Schultz wrote: > Mark, > > On 10/2/2009 5:55 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: >> Elli Albek wrote: >>> A few reasons why not to do this as a servlet filter: >>> >>> 1. There are many web apps on the server and I don't want to include the >>> filter in each. >> You don't have to. Configure it in the global web.xml. > > Are the filters configured in conf/web.xml considered "before" those in > WEB-INF/web.xml... that is, will they be called before the > webapp-defined ones?
I believe so, yes. >>> 2. There are other valves like request filters that cannot work without the >>> correct IP, as well as custom login valve. >> Filters should be OK providing they are defined in the right order. > > Aren't all Valves always called before Filters? Yes. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
