On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> It's not at all clear that the "Persistent URI" article you referenced has
> anything to do with whether a redirect is used for a welcome file or not
actually, I was more concerned with exposing implementation mechanisms
in URIs; and future-proofing so that when index.jsp becomes
index.csharpsp in the future (only kidding...) I'm not left with an
unmanageable mess.
> Originally (back in the pre-3.2-final days), Tomcat did the equivalent of
> a RequestDispatcher.forward() to display welcome pages. This caused
> massive problems for people who didn't understand the difference between:
>
> http://foo.bar/webapp
>
> and
>
> http://foo.bar/webapp/
>
> In the former case, any relative urls on the "real" welcome page are
> broken. This caused bug reports about welcome files not working (never
> mind that using a <base> element in your welcome page would have fixed
> it), which led to the current behavior.
Assuming I want this behaviour and I know the difference, is there a
preferred mechanism to replace this line in DefaultServlet.java?
redirectPath = appendParameters(request, redirectPath);
-- response.sendRedirect(redirectPath);
return;
Cheers,
jan
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