Question

I have a spring-based web application. In a controller I specified the following:

@RequestMapping(value = "/foo/index.html", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public ModelAndView handleIndex(HttpServletRequest request,
        HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
    return new ModelAndView("public/foo/index");
}

The application web.xml servlet mapping:

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>jib</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.html</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

When I make a request to the http://myhost/foo/index.hml everything works fine, but when I am trying to invoke http://myhost/foo/ – I receive a 404 error.

My question is how I can handle http://myhost/foo/ request exactly how I handle the http://myhost/foo/index.html request?

Answer 1

Ok, the solution is shown below

1. Change the servlet-mapping section in the web.xml file

   <servlet-mapping>
   <servlet-name>jib</servlet-name>
   <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
   

2. Change the @RequestMapping value parameter:

   @RequestMapping(value = {"/foo/", "/foo/index.html"}, method = RequestMethod.GET)
   public ModelAndView handleIndex(HttpServletRequest request,
   HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception {
   return new ModelAndView("public/foo/index");
   }
   

Now, the handleIndex method handles all requests for /foo/ and /foo/index.html paths

Hope it will help somebody