Internal Servlet mapping - web.xml

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I wanted to know if there is any way of creating a servlet-mapping which can be only accessed within the webapplication. For example a file inside this application calls another file but it sould not be accessable from outside the web-app.

Thank You,

Where have you placed your web files? If you place them in web-inf folder, it will not be accessible to outside world. — JProgrammer
– JProgrammer, Commented Jul 24, 2012 at 18:00
what ever the mapping you have done in web.xml is global, so I don't think you can restrict like you have asked. One way may be write a Filter which checks for request headers (or) certain parameter to differentiate browser call (or) internal call then decide whether to forward to servlet (or) return to error page. — kosa
– kosa, Commented Jul 24, 2012 at 18:05
Thanks for the filter advise. I have implemented that and works fine. — Fox
– Fox, Commented Jul 25, 2012 at 21:41

MaVRoSCy · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-24 22:47:24Z

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yes there is a way. Placing your restricted jsp files inside your web-inf directory. Then importing those jsp's in other jsp's is perfectly legal and wont cause you any problem.

see an example jsp below:

<%@page import="admin.*"%>
<%@ taglib uri="/WEB-INF/struts-tiles.tld" prefix="tiles" %>
<tiles:insert template='myTemplate.jsp'>
  <tiles:put name='top' content='/WEB-INF/templates/top.jsp''/>  
  <tiles:put name='main' content='/WEB-INF/templates/main.jsp''/>  
  <tiles:put name='footer' content='/WEB-INF/templates/footer.jsp'/>
</tiles:insert>

answered Jul 24, 2012 at 22:47

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