One command for many urls?

"Todd O'Bryan" <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Feb 2004 17:54:45 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.maverick.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I just downloaded Maverick this morning, and I'm already realizing how 
much time I've been wasting the last few months.

Anyway, I'm trying to write a resource viewer that will present one of 
hundreds of jpegs to users depending on which URL they try to access. 
For example,

/view/set1/pic1.html
/view/janesset/pic4.html

should return pages with the appropriate jpegs in them (along with 
window dressing), where the path to the particular jpegs defined by 
set1 and janesset are in a configuration file.

I can do this in a generic servlet by mapping /view/* to the servlet 
which reads the configuration file and serves up the appropriate local 
resource, and I've done that successfully. Now, however, I want to 
check to make sure that people are logged in, have access to the 
resource they're trying to view, handle errors robustly, and generally 
separate the M, V, and C parts of my code.

Does Maverick let me map multiple URLs to a single command? If not, 
should I use query parameters instead of paths? I like the clean-ness 
of the resource looking like a simple web page that somebody could type 
into their browser without a lot of strange symbols, but I can't tell 
if it's possible to do this.

Any insight appreciated,
Todd



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