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Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 15:50:34 -0800
From: "Craig R. McClanahan" <Craig.McClanahan@eng.sun.com>
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"Berche, Guillaume" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Despites the Servlet specs 2.2 are pretty vague about this problem, I guess that the <welcome-file> entry should be able to specify servlet names. However, tomcat 3.2.1 fails to do this. Looking a bit into it, I diagnosed it as follows:
>

FYI, this is going to be one of the many clarifications in 2.3 -- containers will be required to support servlet URIs as "welcome files".

Craig McCLanahan