can I avoid *.do in my URLs?

[Alan Bram <ar...@cornell.edu>]

Hi,

I would like to avoid having to formulate my URLs as "*.do", or even
"/do/*".  I want to have simple names like "/foo" and "/bar", names
that no single pattern could match.  The reason is that I don't want
to expose implementation details in my URLs, because an implementation
could change and then my URLs would be no good.  I care about this
because I want bookmarked URLs within my application to continue to
work.

(See http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html, especially the section
called "We used to use a cgi script for this and now we use a binary
program.")

I had planned to accomplish this by making multiple <servlet-mapping>
entries in the web.xml file, one for each page, each one pointing to
the controller servlet.  (My application has only a small number of
pages, so this seemed feasible.)  But I just noticed the following
warning in the User's Guide (section 5.4.2 "Configure the Action
Servlet Mapping"):

    WARNING - Struts will not operate correctly if you define more
    than one <servlet-mapping> element for the controller servlet.

Eeek!

Is there some other way I can do this?  Or am I stuck?  (Is there
maybe some way a servlet Filter could do this for me?)

Thanks for listening.

Cheers,
 - arb

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Re: can I avoid *.do in my URLs?

[Jason Lea <ja...@kumachan.net.nz>]

Have a look at this filter that  Matt Raible came up with:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-user&m=106399831922108&w=2

Alan Bram wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I would like to avoid having to formulate my URLs as "*.do", or even
>"/do/*".  I want to have simple names like "/foo" and "/bar", names
>that no single pattern could match.  The reason is that I don't want
>to expose implementation details in my URLs, because an implementation
>could change and then my URLs would be no good.  I care about this
>because I want bookmarked URLs within my application to continue to
>work.
>
>(See http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html, especially the section
>called "We used to use a cgi script for this and now we use a binary
>program.")
>
>I had planned to accomplish this by making multiple <servlet-mapping>
>entries in the web.xml file, one for each page, each one pointing to
>the controller servlet.  (My application has only a small number of
>pages, so this seemed feasible.)  But I just noticed the following
>warning in the User's Guide (section 5.4.2 "Configure the Action
>Servlet Mapping"):
>
>    WARNING - Struts will not operate correctly if you define more
>    than one <servlet-mapping> element for the controller servlet.
>
>Eeek!
>
>Is there some other way I can do this?  Or am I stuck?  (Is there
>maybe some way a servlet Filter could do this for me?)
>
>Thanks for listening.
>
>Cheers,
> - arb
>
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