Mark, On 1/16/17 6:24 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > For the background see: > https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/7949 > > The short version is: > > * is seen as a wild card in some environments. > > The options are: > $ & ' ( ) * , - . : ; @ _ ~ > (all followed by /)
Obviously you can't use "." since that is in 99% of WAR filenames. The ";" character is used for file-versions in VMS. I'm not sure how many VMS environments are running Tomcat, but ... it's a thing. Hyphen (-) and underscore (_) are probably too popular. I'd say that $ & : @ * are good contenders. But we are trying to replace * no? > Ideally we want a character that: > - is unlikely to appear in a file name (particularly at the end) > - does not have a special meaning that could conflict when using it in > combination with / in a URI to mark the start of the internal WAR path. > > Thoughts, comments, reasons for excluding one or more of these > characters welcome. So you want a character that can be used in the WAR file name that converts to a "*" in the context-path? Or you want a character in a war:// URL that can be used as the barrier between the physical filename and the logical file within the WAR file? If the latter, what's wrong with the jar:// usage of "!/" ? We are already using # for / and IMO that can be buggy since # has meaning in URLs. What about using an escape-character instead of a stand-in? -chris
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