Re: Eliminating the need for a trailing slash in accessing sub-directoryresourceson a Tomcat HTTP server

2006-10-21 Thread Len Popp
It's not just Tomcat, every web server does that (from what I've seen). I would guess it's required by the HTTP spec. -- Len Popp [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lmp.dyndns.org/ On 10/21/06, Ramez Ghazzaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nice observation, champ! I still don't understand why Tomcat feel

Re: Eliminating the need for a trailing slash in accessing sub-directoryresourceson a Tomcat HTTP server

2006-10-21 Thread Ramez Ghazzaoui
Nice observation, champ! I still don't understand why Tomcat feels the need to send the 302 resubmit request when in fact it knows exactly what the browser's request is. Cheers, -Ramez Len Popp wrote: Note that this problem only happens with port 443. With any other port, IE6 correctly redire

Re: Eliminating the need for a trailing slash in accessing sub-directoryresourceson a Tomcat HTTP server

2006-10-21 Thread Len Popp
Note that this problem only happens with port 443. With any other port, IE6 correctly redirects on the same port. Port 443 is usually used for HTTPS - for some reason IE6 thinks it should redirect to port 80 in this special case. So, if you're able to use a port other than 443 the missing-/ URLs w

Re: Eliminating the need for a trailing slash in accessing sub-directoryresourceson a Tomcat HTTP server

2006-10-21 Thread Ramez Ghazzaoui
So the problem's origin is my unusual port assignment. Thank you Chuck. Case closed :-) -Ramez Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: Ramez Ghazzaoui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Eliminating the need for a trailing slash in accessing sub-directoryresourceson a Tomcat HTTP server I was de

RE: Eliminating the need for a trailing slash in accessing sub-directoryresourceson a Tomcat HTTP server

2006-10-21 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Ramez Ghazzaoui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Eliminating the need for a trailing slash in > accessing sub-directoryresourceson a Tomcat HTTP server > > I was definitely not experiencing a 302 or automatic > refresh/resubmit. Actually, you are, regardless of browser. Crank