[PROPOSAL] Option to 3.3 to allow internal Welcome Files

[Bill Barker <wb...@wilshire.com>]

I've finally managed to patch StaticInterceptor to be able to process
Welcome Files via an internal sub-request rather than the current 301
external redirect.

I'm proposing to add this as an option to StaticInterceptor (off by default,
since the 2.2 spec is so vague on what it should do [but it should pass
2.3]).  It passes all but 3 Watchdog tests (all of which are expecting a 301
redirect).

Opinions, Comments, Flames, welcome.


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Re: [PROPOSAL] Option to 3.3 to allow internal Welcome Files

[co...@covalent.net]

+1

I think Apache uses a 301 too.

The main reason for 301 was the problem of relative hrefs - if you have
a request for /examples and you do an internal redirect to index.html,
then <a href="foo"> will go to /foo instead of /examples/foo.

AFAIK there is no good reason to not do an internal redirect for 
/examples/. Except beeing extra-safe about jsps who may use pathInfo
or have strange bugs - but that's their problem, since the spec doesn't 
say anything.

As long as you leave it off by default, and you deal with /examples and 
href - I think it's ok.

Costin

On Mon, 6 May 2002, Bill Barker wrote:

> I've finally managed to patch StaticInterceptor to be able to process
> Welcome Files via an internal sub-request rather than the current 301
> external redirect.
> 
> I'm proposing to add this as an option to StaticInterceptor (off by default,
> since the 2.2 spec is so vague on what it should do [but it should pass
> 2.3]).  It passes all but 3 Watchdog tests (all of which are expecting a 301
> redirect).
> 
> Opinions, Comments, Flames, welcome.
> 
> 
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> To unsubscribe, e-mail:   <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
> For additional commands, e-mail: <ma...@jakarta.apache.org>
> 
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