I noticed a common pattern is to put JSP pages in WEB-INF folder (as opposed to WAR root). What’s the difference? Why is that preferred?
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I noticed a common pattern is to put JSP pages in WEB-INF folder (as opposed to WAR root). What’s the difference? Why is that preferred?
Files in
WEB-INFare not visible to the users. It’s a bit safer that way.If (a contrived example) you are including
db.jsp, but by itself it throws an exception, a malicious user can openhttp://yoursite.com/db.jspand get some insight on your application (worst – the database credentials) from the exception message.