[thelist] tomcat config - regexp in url-pattern?

[Sam-I-Am]

> Sam-I-Am wrote:
> 
>> I have a <servlet-mapping> block, and want to map my servlet to handle
>> directory indexes only e.g.
<snip>

> 
> Yeah, the Specification of Mappings (Servlet 2.3 section 11.2) is
> pretty constrained. I think your only option is to have the primary
> servlet take everything (/dir/*) and then use a RequestDispatcher
> to pass on the request to the other servlet(s) based on whatever's
> returned by request.getPathInfo().

thanks Hassan,
I knew that should be specified somewhere, but couldn't find it for the 
life of me. I used "my servlet" loosely - its not my code and while I 
could ask the developer to work in something like this (I'm not a java 
guy and not about to be this week) the servlet is intended to be fairly 
generic. On another project I'm using reverse proxing in Apache to relay 
some requests to Tomcat, but handle all the other urls (that don't have 
the /context prefix) itself. I think I can use RewriteRules to do the 
same with the -P flag and maybe get the flexibility I need that way? I'd 
be starting afresh with mod_rewrite, but that might be a better 
investment of my time at this point.

I'd need a regex or set of conditions to do:
if the path does start with /context/, and ends with / or /?somesuch,
   relay on to tomcat at localhost:8080/path
if the path starts with /context/ and ends with /\w+\.shtml
rewrite to /ssi/remainder-of-path
... and so on
   otherwise ignore (leave unmolested) and let apache handle the request 
(I  can alias /context to the correct directory)

Any pointers to achieve the above?

Meanwhile I'm going through
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html
	and
http://www.engelschall.com/pw/apache/rewriteguide/

thanks, Sam