Green, Jeffrey wrote:

>Hello all. Using valves in Tomcat 4, we successfully managed to intercept
>requests to specific contexts and direct them elsewhere. For example, we
>could intercept all requests to /SECRETWEBAPP and redirect them to /.
>
>In order to accomplish this, we used valves which would call
>setRequestURI("/") on all requests that were prefixed with "/SECRETWEBAPP".
>Unfortunately, this technique no longer seems to work with Tomcat 5. Does
>anyone know if anything changed regarding such usage of this method or if
>there is a better way to do this?
>
>
Yes, the HTTP Mapper has been completely re-written. The mapping occurs
*before* entering the pipeline (valve) instead of *after* in Tomcat 4.
You may want to try a re-direct instead. Something like:

if ( bla bla)
          hresponse.sendRedirect(
               hresponse.encodeRedirectURL("/"));


-- Jeanfrancois


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