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Subject: Re: encodeURL, jsessionid and mod_rewrite ?
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From: Christopher Schultz <chris@christopherschultz.net>
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Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2017 20:44:35 -0400
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Laurant,

On 10/3/17 5:17 PM, Laurent Perez wrote:
> I'm using apache+mod_proxy+mod_rewrite as a tomcat frontend. A
> "foo" war is deployed at /foo context path under tomcat. The /foo
> path is not public, apache has a rewrite rule defined as : /bar/* 
> rewrites internally to /foo/*.
> 
> I'm using jstl and its <c:url value="page.jsp"> for every url in my
> jsps to gain the ;jsessionid from encodeURL whenever jsessionid
> cookie is not yet set (1st requests)
> 
> Now my question is : the <c:url> results in a
> "/foo/page.jsp;jsessionid=..." I want the result instead as
> /bar/pages.jsp;jsessionid=....
> 
> Should I go straight for a HttpServletResponseWrapper replacing
> every /foo/ with /bar/ or is there a more elegant way ? If the
> apache rewrite rule is modified - say, to /barv2/, is it ok to use 
> mod_headers to pass the original path instead of hardcoding /bar/
> ?

You are going down a path that will produce endless problems, hacks,
and ugly solutions to those problems. It will be much easier for you
to simply re-name your application from "foo" to "bar" and not worry
about any of this rewriting foolishness.

- -chris
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