Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-tomcat-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 70232 invoked from network); 4 Jan 2003 00:14:43 -0000 Received: from exchange.sun.com (192.18.33.10) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 4 Jan 2003 00:14:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 25318 invoked by uid 97); 4 Jan 2003 00:16:00 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 25302 invoked by uid 97); 4 Jan 2003 00:15:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact tomcat-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Tomcat Developers List" Reply-To: "Tomcat Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 25276 invoked by uid 98); 4 Jan 2003 00:15:56 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4218 created Aug 14 2002) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 16:14:32 -0800 Subject: Re: [PATCH] forward instead of redirect for welcome files From: Jon Scott Stevens To: tomcat-dev Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1041638607.21193.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N on 2003/1/3 4:03 PM, "Matt Parker" wrote: > I'd like to suggest that catalina perform a forward, rather than a > redirect, for requests that end with '/'. With a redirect, special > configuration is necessary for proxy servers to work correctly. Also, a > forward doesn't require an additional round trip to the client--a > redirect must get back to the client and the client then issues a new > request. I've tested this under Linux. Thanks! > > Matt That goes against the behavior of most HTTP servers, including Apache HTTPd. -jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: