Re: [Webmacro-devel] Input wanted!

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 15:24:18 -0500, <kea...@na...> wrote:

> Marc,
>
> I don't have a clear picture of what exactly you want or what the problem
> is, but there are various ways to get the different parts of the Request
> URL.  For instance,
>
> HttpServletRequest.getRequestURI():
[snip]
> or HttpUtil.getRequestURL():

Hehe, thanks for that Keats. Indeed they would make it possible but I'm 
trying to find a simple way that uses existing mechanisms rather than 
writing a whole bunch of parsing code to do it.

The problem I was trying to get across is the different treatment that 
servlets get with respect to getPathInfo and getServletPath when you are 
using a servlet-mapping that is for file types rather than for a URI.

It's very annoying. IMO getPathInfo should return the filename part of the 
URI (everything after context path) when a servlet is called for a file 
type servlet-mapping request. This would make it consistent with 
getPathInfo when using a URI servlet-mapping. That way you could just check 
if getServletPath() returns null and if so it means you've been called from 
a file type mapping, and if the servlet path is non-null it means it was a 
URI mapping.

This is what I'm seeing with Tomcat 4 anyway. It's horrible.

> By default templates can be loaded from the Webapp context root.  This 
> could
> be a security concern in some environments, as you've indicated, which is
> why there are various ways to configure this.
>
> Probably the best way, imho, is to use the delegating template provider 
> to
> restrict templates to a special template directory under WEB-INF.

That sounds like a good idea. I need to catch up with the new Delegating 
template provider stuff.

Thanks
Marc
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Marc Palmer