From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2004-05-24T14:45:54-07:00
Subject: Re: Webrick & HOWTO type docs?

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Kirk Haines (khaines@enigo.com) wrote:

> On Mon, 24 May 2004 14:24:50 -0700, Eric Hodel wrote
>=20
> > These two questions tell me you have one instance that handles many
> > URLs.  Instead of handling this in WEBrick, create a servlet that
> > handles one level up, and add a dispatcher to it (or inside IOWA, if=20
> > you already have one written).
> >=20
> > (Instead of mounting /foo/bar and /foo/baz, mount a servlet at /foo.)
>=20
> What I would like to replicate is basically how I have it working with
> my mod_ruby handler under Apache.
>=20
> Basically, I have a list of paths.  IF a request matches one of the
> paths in the list, the request goes to Iowa for handling.  If not,
> then it gets handled by the web server.  So, really, I want to mount
> /, but then selectively fall through to let something other than the
> servlet handle the request.
>=20
> If I can do this, then with the ability of Webrick to serve regular
> content, an entire application can be handled, along with graphics or
> static files, from Webrick.  It will make it _extremely_ easy to bring
> an Iowa application up.

It sounds like a subclass of FileServlet would fit perfectly.  If its
not in the list of paths, super knows what to do.

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