Question

Good day!

I made a filter servlet and I am trying to not include the css and js. So I wrote this code:

if (url.equals("/login.jsp") || url.equals("/login") ||url.equals("/AddApplicantServlet") ||url.equals("css/*") || url.equals("js/*") ||url.equals("/index.jsp") {
        chain.doFilter(request, response);
    } else {
          ....
    }

My XML is

<filter>
    <filter-name>ServletFilter</filter-name>
    <filter-class>filter.ServletFilter</filter-class>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
    <filter-name>ServletFilter</filter-name>
    <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>

But on the above code.. the url.equals("css/*") and url.equals("js/*") doesnt work… It seems that using wildcard on the URLs are not possible.

Is there any other way to code this?

Answer 1

The String.equals method checks for strict equality.

You should call startsWith.
You can also call matches to test it against a regex.