Suppose you are a browser and you get a URL like:
http://www.enavigo.com/awesome
How do you know if awesome is a directory or a file?
A really nice hint you’d be nice to give is to append a slash to the URL whenever you denote a directory.
So how *can* you find that out?
The only way I found out […]
How browsers detect whether the URL points to a file or a directory
September 1st, 2008 No Comments
Tags: directory · file · http · web servers
Deploying a web application to Jetty
August 29th, 2008 No Comments
The Jetty web application server is great. It is just not very well document and when it is documented it is aimed for the very uninitiated. If you’re using Jetty, it is almost like an old boys club - ‘you made it’.
Still, it appears that Jetty and Tomcat are becoming much more similar in their […]
Tags: context · context.xml · http · Java · jetty · jsp · tomcat · web application server · web application · web.xml · XML