On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 11:42:22PM -0600, Ian Bicking wrote: > On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 11:18, Mike Orr wrote: > > But on the other hand, it could resolve the issue I raised last week, > > that ExtraPathInfo overrides "not found" errors in a nonintuitive way. > > What I'd really like is to leave ExtraPathInfo off normally, and turn > > it on only in a few certain directories. > > > > Actually, even better would be a way to turn ExtraPathInfo on only > > for certain servlets. Would it be possible to have the equivalent of > > <Location servlet.py> > > <LocationMatch servletPattern.*> > > directives to limit settings to certain servlets? > > It would be much better just to add something to the Servlet interface > -- i.e., an allowExtraPathInfo method. Since servlets are structured > and easy to query (unlike files from the perspective of Apache), you > don't need a master file to control their use.
Actually, I started thinking the same thing a few hours ago. The servlet knows best whether it's designed to be called that way. Put a default method in HTTPServlet itself saying no, and then the servlet or an intermediate class can override it. -- -Mike (Iron) Orr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if mail problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://iron.cx/ English * Esperanto * Russkiy * Deutsch * Espan~ol _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
