On 17/01/2017 18:07, Christopher Schultz wrote: > 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 need to be able to reference resources in JARs in WARs. Experience has shown that nest jar URLs don't work. We needed a dedicated war URL format. We currently use: war://...*/... We previously used war://...^/... The former has issues in some use cases. The latter results in invalid URLs. > 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? It has to be a character that Java will expect in a URL. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
