RE: path info okay in servlet, but fails for jsp

[Randy Layman <ra...@aswethink.com>]

	This is right - Tomcat implements the Spec to the letter, which
requires that "*.jsp" match any requests that are literally end with the 4
characters .jsp.  The spec does not mention "*.jsp*" and so that URL mapping
is not possible with the current version of Tomcat.  I believe that this
will be part of the 2.3 spec and, therefore, part of Tomcat 4.

	Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Milt Epstein [mailto:mepstein@uiuc.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 4:18 PM
> To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Re: path info okay in servlet, but fails for jsp
> 
> 
> On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, David Wall wrote:
> 
> > There was never a response to my previous postings, but it appears
> > that path info works for servlets but not for JSPs, which must be a
> > tomcat 3.2.2 bug since jsps themselves are turned into servlets.
> >
> > So, an URL like /webapp/servlet/GA/something+extra?param=value will
> > work, but /webapp/GA.jsp/something+extra?param=value won't.
> 
> I seem to remember seeing something about .jsp URL's (and perhaps all
> those with extensions) not being able to have pathinfo's because of
> how extension mapping is done.  So this might be according to the
> spec.  The fact that they are turned into servlets is irrelevant, it
> has to do with the URL.  You might take a look at the spec to see what
> it has to say about it.
> 
> Milt Epstein
> Research Programmer
> Software/Systems Development Group
> Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
> mepstein@uiuc.edu
>