[plt-scheme] web-server: serving web server files within a servlet

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 6 22:03:28 EDT 2009

Ya, call next-dispatcher. [1]

1. http://docs.plt-scheme.org/web-server-internal/dispatch_ss.html#(def._((lib._web-server/dispatchers/dispatch..ss)._next-dispatcher))

Jay

On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:01 PM, YC<yinso.chen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> is there an "official" way to re-dispatch the request from a servlet to
> serve static files that the web server have access to?
>
> As a example - say that I want to have the servlet to manage all of the
> dispatch from root path.  And I want /images/ to point to a file path that
> web-server already knows how to handle.  I could of course write my own
> custom function to test to see if the path exists, and if so, open up the
> file and serve it out, but I am wondering if there is a way for the servlet
> to pass the request back to the web-server to serve the static files.  Since
> the path is managed by the servlet, then the servlet is responsible to
> translate into something that the server will find.
>
> Thanks,
> yc
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