Re: Tomcat 5.0 web.xml filter mapping <url-pattern>/content/*.jsp

From: DelGurth (fake_at_email.address.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 10:02:09 -0400

We had the same problem with a jsp-property-group url-pattern, and I did
some searches on google on this topic (that's how I ended up in here for
example)

Most clear result I found was:

http://www.mail-archive.com/tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org/msg43676.html

Where it says that mapping /somepath/*.something worked in a version of
tomcat, but is removed since it does not comply with the Servlet
specification.

This is what the servlet specification (2.4) allows:

- A string beginning with a / character and ending with a /* suffix is
used for path mapping.
- A string beginning with a *. prefix is used as an extension mapping.
- A string containing only the / character indicates the "default" servlet
of the application. In this case the servlet path is the request URI minus
the context path and the path info is null.
- All other strings are used for exact matches only.

So what you (and we) are trying to do, cannot be done according to the
Servlet 2.4 specification.

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