Taming Tomcat

Top-level web.xml

• Syntax I'll detail tomorrow
• Defines servlets:
  • default: handles cases which nothing else is defined to handle (knows how to handle static content)
  • invoker: handles Servlets which have not been defined in a web.xml file (never seen this done in practice)
  • jsp: handles all Java Server Pages (JSP) files, we'll talk about these this afternoon
  • ssi: handles Server Side Includes (but Apache HTTPD does this better)
    • Not enabled by default, you need to uncomment its mapping to enable it
  • cgi: handles requests to external CGI programs (but, again, Apache HTTPD does this better)
    • Not enabled by default, you need to uncomment its mapping to enable it

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