Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 60332 invoked from network); 16 Feb 2001 05:10:55 -0000 Received: from patan.sun.com (192.18.98.43) by h31.sny.collab.net with SMTP; 16 Feb 2001 05:10:55 -0000 Received: from centralmail1.Central.Sun.COM ([129.147.62.10]) by patan.sun.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA23186 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 21:11:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from esun1as-mm. (esun1as-mm.Central.Sun.COM [129.147.34.144]) by centralmail1.Central.Sun.COM (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3/ENSMAIL,v2.1p1) with SMTP id WAA11659 for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:11:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from eng.sun.com by esun1as-mm. (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA18667; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:30:28 -0700 Message-ID: <3A8CB6B6.EC0BCB44@eng.sun.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 21:12:22 -0800 From: "Craig R. McClanahan" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: jakarta-tomcat/src/share/org/apache/tomcat/request AccessInterceptor.java References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Rating: h31.sny.collab.net 1.6.2 0/1000/N Marc Saegesser wrote: > Damn, I hate the Servlet spec. They bury this detail in a bloody example > without ever mentioning it explicity! Damn. > One additional place to look for authoritative information about the spec is the published errata. There is a link on the following page: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html which includes a note about this particular issue. > > Section 10.2.2, table 4, item 3 is the only place I can find (now that I > went explicitly looking for it) that describes this functionality. > > Section 10.2 bullet one says that > > * A string beginning with a �/� character and ending with a �/*� postfix is > used as a path mapping. > > But it doesn't actually define what the hell a 'path mapping' is. What it > really seems to mean is that it maps to the servlet specified between the > '/' characters and allows PathInfo to be passed to the servlet. > That's correct. > > The 3.2 PFD spec is no better. > Craig > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: larryi@apache.org [mailto:larryi@apache.org] > > Log: > > According to the spec, a servlet mapped to the url-pattern > > "/abc/*" should > > be invoked if the URL "/abc" is used. The prior fix allows > > "/abc" to fail > > to match "/abc/*" when used for a security-constraint allowing > > it to escape > > authorization. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: tomcat-dev-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org > For additional commands, email: tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org