Servlet Mapping question.

[Mega Man X]

Hi everybody :)

This is my first post here, so I apologize in advance for anything I probably will do :p

I need help with a servlet mapping issue. I've created a servlet. The URL to the servlet looks like this:

http://localhost/ec/mail?id=523/8PysK6GF034

"mail" is the servlet, with takes one parameter, id, which I retrieve later with:

req.getParameter("id")

That works fine, no problems there. The slash "523/8PysK6GF034" is just a commodity I have to help me "split" the above string later, inside my servlet.

Again, all this work. However, I want to part the above like this:

http://localhost/ec/mail/523/8PysK6GF034

That means, I want to, somehow, get the string being parsed after the servlet. (523/8PysK6GF034)

How can I do that? My web.xml looks like this (the relevant parts):

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>WebMailServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>xx.xx.xx.xx.WebMailServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>WebMailServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/mail/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

The server I use is JBoss, if that is worthy mentioning :)

Thanks in advance.

X

[Tolls]

Does that mapping get to your servlet then?
If so, what do you have at the moment to try and extract that suffix?

[Mega Man X]

I was here trying to find a way to fix this, and I've managed it. All I had to do was to use req.getPathInfo(). That did the trick. Then, with:

String[] temp = req.getPathInfo().split("/");
String message_id =temp[1];
String access_password = temp[2];

And I had all I needed. It is important to notice that the url-pattern:

<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>WebMailServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>[B]/mail/*[/B]</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

made it possible here ;)