Web Deployment Descriptor

Question

Hi!
1.)How can I stop directory browsing in tomcat.
I am using jboss/tomcat
2.)Where can I find documentation on web.xml
3.)I want the request in the address bar to stay same
//localhost:8080/myapp all the time.
And every time the user does something I want the request to go to my request handler servlet. I used
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>requesthandler</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
this makes all the requests to come to the servlet but how do i redirect the requests for images and other static contents back to the web server
Thanx for the any help in advance.

Answer 1

1) Check the security docs in Tomcat at:
http://localhost:8080/tomcat-docs/security-manager-howto.html when you tomcat server is running.
2) Check out the Servlet 2.3 Spec API at:
http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/download.html
All Web developers should read it even if it is 10 times larger than the 2.2 spec.
3) try: <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
as quoted:
SRV.11.2 Specification of Mappings
In the web application deployment descriptor, the following syntax is used to define
mappings:
� A string beginning with a �/� character and ending with a �/*� postfix is used
for path mapping.
� A string beginning with a �*.� prefix is used as an extension mapping.
� A string containing only the �/� character indicates the "default" servlet of the
application. In this case the servlet path is the request URI minus the context
path and the path info is null.
� All other strings are used for exact matches only.
Cheers,
Anthony