Servlet RequestDispatcher issues

• From: Wes Biggs <wes@cacas.org>
• Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 21:07:52 -0700
• To: www-jigsaw@w3.org
• Message-ID: <38128618.E9A9CCE6@cacas.org>

Hello all,

I'm developing GNUJSP (http://www.klomp.org/gnujsp/) using Jigsaw
2.1.0.   Thank you for providing an excellent piece of software and a
very good servlet API implementation.

Jigsaw's implementation of javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher handles an
include() method call by setting the HttpServletRequests's parameters
(requestURI, pathInfo, etc.) to those of the newly included resource.
However, on return it doesn't reset them to the original values.

JSP specifies a PageContext.include(relativeURI) function which GNUJSP
implements.  We need to be able to examine the current request context
to "calculate" the new URI, and if this includes directories from
previous include calls made during this request, there's no way to
reliably reconstruct the current request URI.

As another implementation strategy, the latest Servlet API specification
recommends (mandates?) the use of request attributes to hold the new
(included) path information: javax.servlet.include.request_uri, etc.

Thanks,

Wes

Received on Sunday, 24 October 1999 00:11:50 UTC