Question

I want to filter all requests to my jersey servlet so I do this:

<filter-mapping>
   <filter-name>jersey</filter-name>
   <url-pattern>*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

Unfortunatly, this has the side-effect of catching the dev console (http://localhost:8888/_ah/admin)

Is there a way I can exclude paths matching “/_ah/*” from the filter?

Or perhaps a better way to achieve the same thing?

Answer 1

Thanks to the suggestion by @adarshr I started to look into extending the Jersey filter servlet so that I could skip certain paths. It was then I realised that it already supports paths to ignore as an init param.

<init-param>
    <param-name>com.sun.jersey.config.property.WebPageContentRegex</param-name>
    <param-value>/(js|css|(WEB-INF/jsp)|_ah)/.*</param-value>
</init-param>

(I was already even using it after pasting in the code from somewhere without reading it!)